Fastidious
[fæ'stɪdɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; 'a fastidious and incisive intellect'; 'fastidious about personal cleanliness' .
(adj.) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; 'fastidious microorganisms'; 'certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements' .
Edited by Kelsey--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Editor: Lou
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Squeamish, difficult, queasy, critical, dainty, over-nice, over-delicate, hard to please.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Critical, overnice, overrefined, censorious, punctillious, particular,squeamish, dainty
ANT:Easy, indulgent, uncritical, coarse, omnivorous
Editor: Spence
Definition
adj. affecting superior taste: over-nice: difficult to please.—adv. Fastid′iously.—n. Fastid′iousness.
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Examples
- She meant 'facinating', but as Grace didn't know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Yet I almost trembled for fear of making the answer too cordial: Graham's tastes are so fastidious. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- And he was really a very pleasing young man, a young man whom any woman not fastidious might like. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But are there not also fastidious, angry, querulential readers? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I would not be so fastidious as you are, cried Mr. Bingley, for a kingdom! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Now, Laurie, don't be too fastidious and worldly-minded. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I was no vocalist myself, and, in his fastidious judgment, no musician, either; but I delighted in listening when the performance was good. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He is fastidious and will have an affectation of his own. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Many besides her uncle asked what she meant, and whom she expected to entrap, that she was so insolently fastidious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My sister Beth is a very fastidious girl, when she likes to be, said Amy, well pleased at Beth's success. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Enfin, elle sait, said he, half dissatisfied, and one cannot be fastidious or exacting under the circumstances. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Aye, I said, I knew all along that a fastidious gentleman like you would not be contented with the thoughts of other people about these matters. Plato. The Republic.
- Martin, safe in the larder, made fastidious selection from its stores. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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