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fastidious
fas·tid·i·ous F0047600 (fă-stĭd′ē-əs, fə-)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.
[Middle English, squeamish, particular, haughty, from Old French fastidieux, from Latin fastīdiōsus, from fastīdium, squeamishness, haughtiness, probably from fastus, disdain.]
fas·tid′i·ous·ly adv.fas·tid′i·ous·ness n.fastidious (fæˈstɪdɪəs) adj1. very critical; hard to please2. excessively particular about details3. exceedingly delicate; easily disgusted[C15: from Latin fastīdiōsus scornful, from fastīdium loathing, from fastus pride + taedium weariness] fasˈtidiously adv fasˈtidiousness nfas•tid•i•ous (fæˈstɪd i əs, fə-)
adj. 1. particular; hard to please. 2. painstaking. [1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fastīdiōsus squeamish, derivative of fastidium lack of appetite, disgust] fas•tid′i•ous•ly, adv. fas•tid′i•ous•ness, n. Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | fastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"refined - (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"tidy - marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"unfastidious - marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness; "unfastidious in her dress" | | 2. | fastidious - having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"exactingmicrobiology - the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humansunfastidious - not exacting in nutritional requirements |
fastidiousadjective particular, meticulous, fussy, overdelicate, difficult, nice, critical, discriminating, dainty, squeamish, choosy, picky (informal), hard to please, finicky, punctilious, pernickety, hypercritical, overnice He was fastidious about his appearance.
disorderly, casual, slack, careless, sloppy, easy-going, lenient, slovenly, slipshod, unsystematicfastidiousadjective1. Showing or marked by attentiveness to all aspects or details:careful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous.2. Very difficult to please:choosy, dainty, exacting, finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, nice, particular, persnickety, squeamish.Informal: picky.Translationsfastidious (fəˈstidiəs) , ((American) fa-) adjective very critical and difficult to please. She is so fastidious about her food that she will not eat in a restaurant. 愛挑剔的，難取悅的 爱挑剔的，难取悦的 faˈstidiously adverb 愛挑剔 爱挑剔faˈstidiousness noun 愛挑剔 爱挑剔EncyclopediaSeeFastidiousnessfastidious
fas·tid·i·ous (fas-tid'ē-ŭs), In bacteriology, having precise nutritional and environmental requirements.fastidious (fă-stĭd′ē-əs, fə-)adj. Microbiology Having complex nutritional requirements.
fas·tid′i·ous·ly adv.fas·tid′i·ous·ness n.fas·tid·i·ous (fas-tid'ē-ŭs) bacteriology Having complex and precise nutritional requirements. fastidiousIn microbiology, concerning an organism that has precise nutritional and environmental requirements for growth and survival.fastidious
Synonyms for fastidiousadj particularSynonyms- particular
- meticulous
- fussy
- overdelicate
- difficult
- nice
- critical
- discriminating
- dainty
- squeamish
- choosy
- picky
- hard to please
- finicky
- punctilious
- pernickety
- hypercritical
- overnice
Antonyms- disorderly
- casual
- slack
- careless
- sloppy
- easy-going
- lenient
- slovenly
- slipshod
- unsystematic
Synonyms for fastidiousadj showing or marked by attentiveness to all aspects or detailsSynonyms- careful
- meticulous
- painstaking
- punctilious
- scrupulous
adj very difficult to pleaseSynonyms- choosy
- dainty
- exacting
- finical
- finicky
- fussy
- meticulous
- nice
- particular
- persnickety
- squeamish
- picky
Synonyms for fastidiousadj giving careful attention to detailRelated WordsAntonymsadj having complicated nutritional requirementsSynonymsRelated WordsAntonyms |