fastidious

Definition of Fastidious in English :

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Adjective

1. fastidious

giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness

Example Sentences:
'a fastidious and incisive intellect'
'fastidious about personal cleanliness'

2. exacting, fastidious

having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures

Example Sentences:
'fastidious microorganisms'
'certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements'

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WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fastidious

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adjective

1.

very critical; hard to please

2.

excessively particular about details

3.

exceedingly delicate; easily disgusted

Fastidious

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adjective

1.

not easy to please; very critical or discriminating

2.

refined in a too dainty or oversensitive way, so as to be easily disgusted

Fastidious

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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.

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