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fastidious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | fastidiousness |
a fastidious and incisive intellect.
fastidious about personal cleanliness.
Examples of fastidious
fastidious
When it is, audiences will see the work of a fastidious, idiosyncratic director.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Despite their fastidious planning, the boys are up against a number of unknowns.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Where once I could spend days mooching, I'm now a fastidious organisation fiend.
From the smh.com.au
Furci says that's precisely because Ellis was such a fastidious social observer.
From the smh.com.au
Half-blind, sparrow-like, fastidious, she spoke in a timid, almost repressed way.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I've experienced places that aren't really fastidious about cleaning their lines.
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Where Barnes is a fastidious anatomist, Carol Birch is a smash-and-grab artist.
From the guardian.co.uk
I am not likely to be particularly fastidious dealing with this subject matter.
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His fastidious grumbling about the demands of politics was something of a pose.
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- Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
- Having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"
- (fastidiously) painstakingly: in a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling"
- (fastidiousness) the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style; "neatness and fastidiousness of dress"
- Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details; Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness; Difficult to please; quick to find fault
- (adj.) meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards (Mark is so fastidious that he is never able to finish a project because it always seems imperfect to him.)
- Delicado; exigente; quisquilloso; fino; meticuloso
- Complex nutritional or cultural requirements, making isolation and culture of a fastidious organism more difficult.
- (voiced by Mark Bowen): A small hamster with a cultured British accent, obsessed with cleanliness and world domination. He is nearly always seen inside a hamsterball that serves as the control center for his robots, mainly his Hamsterbot. ...
