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adjective
- 1. very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail: "she dressed with fastidious care"
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Fastidious means giving too much attention to small details and wanting everything to be correct and perfect, or having a strong dislike of anything dirty or unpleasant. See the pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms and usage examples of fastidious in English.
Fastidious means extremely or excessively careful or detailed, or having high and often capricious standards. It comes from Latin fastidium, meaning "aversion" or "disgust." See synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases.
giving too much attention to small details and wanting everything to be correct and perfect: fastidious about He is very fastidious about how a suitcase should be packed. having a strong dislike of anything dirty or unpleasant: They were too fastidious to eat in a fast-food restaurant.
Fastidious means paying great attention to detail, being very critical or easily disgusted. Learn the synonyms, pronunciation, word origin and usage of fastidious with sentences and quizzes.
Fastidious definition: excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please. See examples of FASTIDIOUS used in a sentence.
Fastidious is a funny-sounding adjective from the Latin fastidium "loathing" that has several equally strange-sounding synonyms — persnickety, fussbudgety, finicky and punctilious. Fussy and hard to please will also do the trick.
Fastidious means being careful that every detail of something is correct, or sometimes not liking things to be dirty or untidy. Learn how to use this adjective with synonyms, pronunciation and pictures.
