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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fas•tid•i•ous /fæˈstɪdiəs/USA pronunciation adj. - overly particular, critical, or demanding;
hard to please:a fastidious eater. - requiring or having excessive care or delicacy:fastidious attention to detail.
fas•tid•i•ous•ly, adv. fas•tid•i•ous•ness, n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fas•tid•i•ous (fa stid′ē əs, fə-),USA pronunciation adj. - excessively particular, critical, or demanding;
hard to please:a fastidious eater. - requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy;
painstaking.
- Latin fastīdiōsus squeamish, equivalent. to fastīdi(um) lack of appetite, disgust, perh. by syncope of *fastutīdium (fastu-, combining form of fastus pride, conceit + -tīdium combining form of taedium tedium) + -ōsus -ous
- late Middle English 1375–1425
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See particular.
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