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单词 fastidious
释义 fas·tid·i·ous
\faˈstidēəs sometimes fəˈ-\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, haughty, disgusting, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French fastidieux disgusting, from Latin fastidiosus squeamish, haughty, disgusting, from fastidium aversion, disgust (probably irregular from fastus pride, arrogance + taedium irksomeness, disgust) + -osus -ose; akin to Latin fastigium top, extremity — more at bristle, tedium I
1. archaic : scornful, haughty
2. obsolete : disgusting, disagreeable
3.
 a. : overly difficult to please : overly nice or delicate in matters of taste
  < grew fastidious with easy living >
  < highbrow critics who are so esoteric and so fastidious that they can talk only to a small circle of initiates — Granville Hicks >
  < a man falsely fastidious, finical, effeminate — Matthew Arnold >
 b. : marked by a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude (as in matters of taste)
  < an extremely stylish and fastidious person >
  < fastidious about cleanness of the person >
  < fastidious attention to detail — Robert Evett >
  < a fastidious aristocrat by birth and habit, he was a fine critic both of art and music — F.J.Mather >
  : sensitive and particular
  < the fastidious puritanism of Virgil — John Buchan >
  < fastidious and well-bred and incurably polite — Elinor Wylie >
  < amahs and houseboys fastidious in white jackets and black trousers — New Yorker >
 c. : reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude
  < an oar took shape with marvelous rapidity — trimmed and smoothed with a neatness almost fastidious — John Burroughs >
  < Europe's intellectuals, editorial writers, and theologically fastidious churchmen — Newsweek >
  < his fastidious regard for the court's dignity — John Mason Brown >
4. : having complex nutritional requirements — used of bacteria that grow only in specially fortified artificial culture media
Synonyms: see nice
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