Meaning of FASTIDIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | fa'stideeus
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- [adj] giving and careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
- [adj] (microbiology) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"
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| | Synonyms: | | choosey, choosy, dainty, exacting, finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, nice, old-maidish, old-womanish, overnice, particular, pernickety, persnickety, picky, prissy, squeamish |
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| | Antonyms: | | unfastidious | | |
| | See Also: | | refined, tidy | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fas*tid"i*ous\, a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr.
fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of
uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. {Tedious}, {Fash}.]
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with
difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a
fastidious appetite.
Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. --Young.
Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious.
Usage: {Fastidious}, {Squeamish}. We call a person fastidious
when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling
defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is
excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also
when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty.
``Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to
be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and
scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish.'' --Crabb. --
{Fas*tid"i*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Fas*tid"i*ous*ness}, n.
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| | Definition: | | Having to do with microorganisms which have unusual and/or complex nutritional needs and must be grown on enriched media. |
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| | Related Terms: | | accurate, appreciative, bleached, bright, careful, censorious, choicy, choosy, civilized, clean, cleanly, conscientious, critical, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, differential, difficult, dirt-free, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, elegant, exact, exacting, fair, fine, finical, finicky, fresh, fussy, graceful, gracile, gracious, hypercritical, immaculate, kosher, meticulous, nice, nit-picking, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, overconscientious, overscrupulous, particular, perfectionistic, picky, polished, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prudish, punctilious, punctual, pure, puristic, puritanic, refined, religious, ritually pure, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, shiny, smut-free, smutless, sophisticated, spotless, squeamish, stainless, strict, subtle, sweet, tactful, tahar, tender-conscienced, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened |
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