fastidious

adjective

fas·tid·i·ous fa-ˈsti-dē-əs How to pronounce fastidious (audio)

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: showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care

fastidious attention to detail

Robert Evett

: reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude

fastidious workmanship

: having high and often capricious standards : difficult to please

critics … so fastidious that they can talk only to a small circle of initiates

Granville Hicks

: having complex nutritional requirements

fastidious microorganisms

archaic : scornful

fastidiously adverb

fastidiousness noun

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Fastidious Has a Disgusting Past

Fastidious comes from Latin fastidium, meaning "aversion" or "disgust." Fastidium is believed to be a combination of fastus, meaning "arrogance," and taedium, "irksomeness" or "disgust." (Taedium is also the source of tedium and tedious.) In keeping with its Latin roots, fastidious once meant "haughty," "disgusting," and "disagreeable," but the word is now most often applied to people who are very meticulous or overly difficult to please, or to work which reflects a demanding or precise attitude.

Example Sentences

My mother had always been the most fastidious and organized of people—a wet ring left on her coffee table by a glass could drive her to distraction.

John B. Judis, New Republic, 14 Oct. 1996 "I'll stop off and get us a sandwich," said Matthew. … Tony, a fastidious eater, sighed.

Penelope Lively, City of the Mind, 1991 Though he prides himself on being hip, he is too fastidious to do anything dangerous or dirty.

Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, 1984 He is fastidious about keeping the house clean. She was too fastidious to do anything that might get her dirty.

Recent Examples on the Web Basenjis also have a catlike demeanor, and these fastidious little creatures will even groom themselves.

Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2022 Anyone in the secured lending business, and its counsel, must approach the process with a fastidious attention to detail and process.

Joshua Stein, Forbes, 16 May 2022 This kind of sterility requires fastidious cleaning.

Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 13 Aug. 2022 One day, Carmy’s sous chef, Sydney—an ambitious and fastidious young woman with serious fine-dining bona fides herself—reaches a breaking point, storming out of the kitchen after Carmy blows up at her.

Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 Murnane has described himself as a technical writer, and his outspoken and fastidious devotion to grammar steers a great deal of the thinking his narrators perform.

Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022 The editing is fastidious, much as in Nathan for You and How to With John Wilson (which Fielder produces), often underscoring a joke by zooming in on an amusing detail or cutting to the comedian’s reaction at just the right moment.

Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 July 2022 But your sister-in-law has not been so fastidious: Her behavior is genuinely rude.

Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 19 May 2022 One of the most quotable characters from the series, Tony Sirico’s fastidious and impeccably coiffured capo is also one of the most tempting to impersonate.

Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021 See More

单词	fastidious
释义	fastidious adjective fas·tid·i·ous fa-ˈsti-dē-əs fə- 1 a : showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care fastidious attention to detail Robert Evett b : reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude fastidious workmanship c : having high and often capricious standards : difficult to please critics … so fastidious that they can talk only to a small circle of initiates Granville Hicks 2 : having complex nutritional requirements fastidious microorganisms 3 archaic : scornful fastidiously adverb fastidiousness noun Did you know? Fastidious Has a Disgusting Past Fastidious comes from Latin fastidium, meaning "aversion" or "disgust." Fastidium is believed to be a combination of fastus, meaning "arrogance," and taedium, "irksomeness" or "disgust." (Taedium is also the source of tedium and tedious.) In keeping with its Latin roots, fastidious once meant "haughty," "disgusting," and "disagreeable," but the word is now most often applied to people who are very meticulous or overly difficult to please, or to work which reflects a demanding or precise attitude. Synonyms choosy choosey dainty delicate demanding exacting finical finicking finicky fussbudgety fussy nice old-maidish particular pernickety [chiefly British] persnickety picky See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences My mother had always been the most fastidious and organized of people—a wet ring left on her coffee table by a glass could drive her to distraction. John B. Judis, New Republic, 14 Oct. 1996 "I'll stop off and get us a sandwich," said Matthew. … Tony, a fastidious eater, sighed. Penelope Lively, City of the Mind, 1991 Though he prides himself on being hip, he is too fastidious to do anything dangerous or dirty. Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, 1984 He is fastidious about keeping the house clean. She was too fastidious to do anything that might get her dirty. Recent Examples on the Web Basenjis also have a catlike demeanor, and these fastidious little creatures will even groom themselves. Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2022 Anyone in the secured lending business, and its counsel, must approach the process with a fastidious attention to detail and process. Joshua Stein, Forbes, 16 May 2022 This kind of sterility requires fastidious cleaning. Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 13 Aug. 2022 One day, Carmy’s sous chef, Sydney—an ambitious and fastidious young woman with serious fine-dining bona fides herself—reaches a breaking point, storming out of the kitchen after Carmy blows up at her. Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 Murnane has described himself as a technical writer, and his outspoken and fastidious devotion to grammar steers a great deal of the thinking his narrators perform. Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022 The editing is fastidious, much as in Nathan for You and How to With John Wilson (which Fielder produces), often underscoring a joke by zooming in on an amusing detail or cutting to the comedian’s reaction at just the right moment. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 July 2022 But your sister-in-law has not been so fastidious: Her behavior is genuinely rude. Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 19 May 2022 One of the most quotable characters from the series, Tony Sirico’s fastidious and impeccably coiffured capo is also one of the most tempting to impersonate. Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021 See More Word History Etymology Middle English, from Latin fastidiosus, from fastidium disgust, probably from fastus arrogance (probably akin to Latin fastigium top) + taedium irksomeness — more at tedium First Known Use 15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3 Phrases Containing fastidious hyper-fastidious hyper-fastidious Kids Definition fastidious adjective fas·tid·i·ous fa-ˈsti-dē-əs : hard to please : very particular a fastidious dresser Medical Definition fastidious adjective fas·tid·i·ous fa-ˈstid-ē-əs, fə- : having complex nutritional requirements fastidious microorganisms —used of bacteria that grow only in specially fortified artificial culture media fastidious adjective as in careful hard to please he is very fastidious about how he arranges his music collection, and woe to anyone who dares to mess around with it Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance careful nice finicky particular meticulous persnickety exacting fussy picky pernickety finicking dainty finical choosy delicate demanding selective punctilious scrupulous discriminating fussbudgety critical discerning knowledgeable hyperfastidious captious choosey insightful ultrafastidious hypercritical old-maidish painstaking squeamish overcritical prissy faultfinding peevish caviling queasy overdemanding touchy carping prim petulant cavilling prickly queazy niminy-piminy Antonyms & Near Antonyms unfastidious unfussy undemanding affable lackadaisical carefree relaxed flexible lax breezy loose lenient permissive uncritical laid-back undiscriminating devil-may-care indiscriminating happy-go-lucky low-pressure See More
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fastidious

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