Definition of 'fastidious'
1. adjective
If you say that someone is fastidious, you mean that they pay great attention to detail because they like everything to be very neat, accurate, and in good order.
...her fastidious attention to historical detail.
He was fastidious about his appearance. [+ about]
fastidiously graded adverb
He fastidiously copied every word of his notes on to clean paper.
2. adjective
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adjective
2.
excessively particular about details
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Derived forms
adverb
fastidiousness (fasˈtidiousness)
noun
Word origin of 'fastidious'
SIMILAR WORDS: ˈdainty
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Derived forms
adverb
fastidiousness (fasˈtidiousness)
noun
Example sentences containing 'fastidious'
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His countrymen these days are much less fastidious. Times, Sunday Times (2006)He also taught me fastidious attention to detail. Times, Sunday Times (2008)But why such fastidious attention to gardening in the first place? Christianity Today (2000)With his fastidious attention to detail, there is little doubt that he will have done the maths. Times, Sunday Times (2014)There is a touch of the set designer about him and he was less fastidious in his classical detail than Soane. Times, Sunday Times (2013)Some countries are less fastidious. Times, Sunday Times (2006)Some writers complained that her stories, with their fastidious eye for detail and bourgeois white relationships, were too detached from the growing horrors of apartheid. Times, Sunday Times (2014)
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Translations for 'fastidious'
British English: fastidious ADJECTIVE
If you say that someone is fastidious, you mean that they pay great attention to detail.
...her fastidious attention to historical detail.
- American English: fastidious
- Brazilian Portuguese: meticuloso
- Chinese: 极其注重细节的
- European Spanish: exigente
- French: minutieux
- German: penibel
- Italian: pignolo
- Japanese: 細部までこだわった
- Korean: 세심한
- European Portuguese: meticuloso
- Spanish: exigente
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