| 单词 | fastidious |
| 释义 | fastidious (once / 1419 pages) 1adj 2adj If you want to describe a person who insists on perfection or pays much attention to food, clothing and cleanliness, the right word is fastidious. Fastidious is a funny-sounding adjective from the Latin fastidium "loathing" that has several equally strange-sounding synonyms — persnickety, fussbudgety, finicky and punctilious. Fussy and hard to please will also do the trick. Fastidious is occasionally used as a compliment to describe someone whose attention to detail gives them good organizing abilities, but it is usually used as a disapproving term. WORD FAMILYfastidious: fastidiously, fastidiousness, unfastidious+/fastidiousness: fastidiousnesses USAGE EXAMPLESHis fastidious, historically sensitive renditions of Bach’s unaccompanied suites were widely acclaimed. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) Tall and physically commanding, fastidious in his attire, he often built to a crescendo of indignation, gesturing firmly with long-fingered, well-manicured hands. Reuters(Nov 26, 2016) Fastidious about things being neat, he grew weary of Beijing’s messy brown grass. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) 1 adj giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness 2a fastidious and incisive intellect fastidious about personal cleanliness Syn|Ant choosey, choosy difficult to please dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamishexcessively fastidious and easily disgusted finical, finicky, fussy, particular, pickyexacting especially about details meticulousmarked by extreme care in treatment of details pernickety, persnicketycharacterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details old-maidish, old-womanishprimly fastidious refined(used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel tidymarked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits unfastidious marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness unrefined(used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth untidynot neat and tidy adj having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures fastidious microorganisms Syn|Ant exacting unfastidious not exacting in nutritional requirements |
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