Meaning of PERFECTIONIST
| Pronunciation: | | pur'fekshunist
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards |
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| | See Also: | | compulsive | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Per*fec"tion*ist\, n.
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral
perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain
to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life. --South.
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| | Related Terms: | | anal character, aspirant, aspirer, Babbitt, bourgeois, bright, burgher, captious critic, censorious, cheerful, chiliast, chiliastic, choicy, choosy, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conscientious, conventionalist, couleur de rose, critical, demanding, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formalist, fuss-budget, fusspot, fussy, hopeful, hoper, irrepressible optimist, Leibnizian, Leibnizian optimist, methodologist, meticulous, Middle American, middle-class type, millenarian, millennialist, millennialistic, millennian, model child, nitpicker, nit-picking, obsessive, optimist, optimistic, organization man, parrot, particular, pedant, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionistic, Philistine, philosophical optimist, picky, plastic person, Pollyanna, precise, precisian, precisianist, precisianistic, precisionist, priggish, prudish, punctilious, purist, puristic, puritanic, ray of sunshine, roseate, rose-colored, rosy, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, sheep, square, stickler, strict, sunny, teenybopper, trimmer, upbeat, utopian, yes-man |
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