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fastidious
CEFRC2
/fæsˈtɪdi.əs/
adjective
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Very careful about details, cleanliness, or correctness.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailDifficult to please; quick to find fault.
Examples
Fastidious tastes will be most charmed with such verses as these.
He's very fastidious when it comes to booking trips.
At a glance
Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale
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- Parts of speech
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- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
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Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsOverly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
Having precise requirements for nutrition and environment (chemical and physical); especially, being difficult to culture because of those requirements.
More examples
In contextfastidious organism
fastidious species
As she cleaned the room daily, she knew it was against his fastidious nature to bring or have food in his room.
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Origin
adjective
Borrowed from Latin fastīdiōsus (“passive: that feels disgust, disdainful, scornful, fastidious; active: that causes disgust, disgusting, loathsome”), from fastīdium (“a loathing, aversion, disgust, niceness of taste, daintiness, etc.”), perhaps for *fastutidium, from fastus (“disdain, haughtiness, arrogance, disgust”) + taedium (“disgust”). Cf. French fastidieux.