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fastidiously
fas·tid·i·ous F0047600 (fă-stĭd′ē-əs, fə-)adj.1. Showing or acting with careful attention to detail: a fastidious scholar; fastidious research.2. Difficult to please; exacting: "The club is also becoming far more fastidious about what constitutes a breed standard" (Janet Burroway).3. Excessively scrupulous or sensitive, as in taste, propriety, or neatness: "He was a fastidious man who hated to dirty his hands, in particular with food" (Michael Chabon). See Synonyms at meticulous.4. Microbiology Having complex nutritional requirements.
[Middle English, squeamish, particular, haughty, from Old French fastidieux, from Latin fastīdiōsus, from fastīdium, squeamishness, haughtiness, probably from fastus, disdain.]
fas·tid′i·ous·ly adv.fas·tid′i·ous·ness n.Thesaurus| Adv. | 1. | fastidiously - in a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling"painstakingly | | 2. | fastidiously - in a fastidious manner; "he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative" |
Translationsfastidious (fəˈstidiəs) , ((American) fa-) adjective very critical and difficult to please. She is so fastidious about her food that she will not eat in a restaurant. 愛挑剔的，難取悅的 爱挑剔的，难取悦的 faˈstidiously adverb 愛挑剔 爱挑剔faˈstidiousness noun 愛挑剔 爱挑剔MedicalSeefastidiousfastidiously
Related to fastidiously: bewildering, indescribably, terselySynonyms for fastidiouslyadv in a fastidious and painstaking mannerSynonyms |