fastidious
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8.0
- adjective
- /fæˈtɪdɪəs/
:
meticuloso
- You are fastidious, aren't you?
So I'm pretty fastidious about wearing my sunglasses.
- So I'm pretty fastidious about wearing my sunglasses.
- They really are fastidious about order and we we read here that they now they were members of the household and all its arrangements.
- Do not become peevish or fastidious towards events.
- You're fastidious and peevish, like invalids.
- And she is fastidious for logic.
Examples
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I had always been a precise, orderly man, even fastidious.
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But he's a little too fastidious.
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You are a fastidious man.
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His appearance was all that the most fastidious could wish for.
Fiction book (1996) -
I'm too fastidious with my words.
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No, actually I'm quite fastidious.
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Amy is the perfect person to help, because she's very calm and very fastidious.
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We're fastidious creatures.
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He's the most fastidious man I ever saw, but he's a splendid courier.
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She is very fastidious about the cleanliness of her kitchen, ensuring everything is spotless.
Synonyms
106
4.4
Careful about small details and hard to please
67
4.7
Being hard to please about food or small details
58
8.6
Being very careful about small details
24
3.9
Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things
12
7.1
Hard to please and careful about small details
5
6.1
A person who is not easily satisfied and often complains
4
9.8
Being very picky about small details
3
7.2
Careful to do things correctly and notice small details
1
8.9
Being very careful about small details and correct behaviour
Being very careful about small details in a way that annoys others
Careful about small details and hard to please
Too worried about small details and hard to please
Antonyms
How Fastidious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fastidious comes from the Latin word fastidium, which meant 'disgust' or dislike of something. Think of a person who is easily disgusted and therefore very picky about cleanliness and small details, so fastidious means 'hard to please' and very careful about tiny things.