Fastidious - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|fæˈstɪdɪəs|
Brit.
|fæˈstɪdɪəs|
adjective
- 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 (syn: exacting)fastidious about personal cleanliness
fastidious microorganisms
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He is fastidious about keeping the house clean.
She was too fastidious to do anything that might get her dirty.
Though being far from fastidious, he refused to eat it.
She is very fastidious about personal hygiene.
“I'll stop off and get us a sandwich,” said Matthew. ... Tony, a fastidious eater, sighed.
Though he prides himself on being hip, he is too fastidious to do anything dangerous or dirty.
This most fastidious of pianists sounds anything but neurotic when he plays Mozart.
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