perfectionistic
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7.2
- adjective
- /pərˌfɛkʃəˈnɪstɪk/
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perfeccionista
- If you have a perfectionistic attitude, you might struggle to accept anything less than perfect results.
- perfectionistic thinking
- perfectionistic tendencies
- perfectionistic standards
The reason I don't now it's because they drive me back towards these perfectionistic tendencies.
- The reason I don't now it's because they drive me back towards these perfectionistic tendencies.
- Otherwise you can easily spend a lifetime being pulled into their perfectionistic expectations.
- And also like, important to remember that your moon is in a sign that has a perfectionistic quality as well.
- And so girls tend to be more perfectionistic than boys in general because their amygdalas are on fire.
- But you know, I'm just, I have this perfectionistic way of thinking that like was very self-destructive in that moment.
- To maintain their perfectionistic exterior and get supply.
- And again, I can't tell you because they're so, so pushed into that perfectionistic tendencies portion.
Examples
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We speculate that athletes who possess highly perfectionistic thought and behavioral patterns are also characterized by high organizational skills.
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Further, as predicted, dancers were more perfectionistic than non-dancers.
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At the practical level, our results have important implications for the assessment and treatment of depression in perfectionistic individuals.
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Perfectionistic thinking, therefore, may be strongly linked to body image problems.
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And I've always been perfectionistic about my stuff.
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Many gifted children must also cope with perfectionistic tendencies.
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The role of adult "significant others" (i.e., parents and coaches) in developing perfectionistic thinking is very apparent in competitive sport.
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According to Bruch (1973, 1978), struggling to live up to perfectionistic or unrealistic standards is characteristic of the eating disorder anorexia nervosa.
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Many artists can be perfectionistic, often spending hours refining their work until it's flawless.
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Her perfectionistic nature made it difficult for her to complete projects, as she always sought to improve them.
Synonyms
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4.4
Careful about small details and hard to please
58
8.6
Being very careful about small details
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3.9
Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things
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7.1
Hard to please and careful about small details
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7.2
Careful to do things correctly and notice small details
Too worried about small details and hard to please
Being too careful about following rules or avoiding mistakes
Careful about small details and hard to please
How Perfectionistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
perfectionistic = perfectionist (transparent) = perfectionist + ic
The adjective is readily understood as describing someone or something characteristic of a perfectionist (clear relation to 'perfectionist' + '-ic').
Etymology
Perfectionistic comes from the common word perfect, which originally came from an old Latin word meaning 'to make completely', and the ending -istic is like in artistic, meaning 'having the quality of'. So, perfectionistic describes someone who wants things completely perfect and free from mistakes.