单词 | fastidious |
释义 | fas·tid·i·ous 1. archaic 2. obsolete 3. a. < 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. < 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. < 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. Synonyms: see nice |
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