adjective · rare

fastidious

fas·ti·di·ous

fastidious · more fastidious · most fastidious

ретельний, скрупульозний, прискіпливий, вередливий

брезгливый, прихотливый

eigen, anspruchsvoll, penibel, heikel

Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness…Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.

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/fæsˈtɪdi.əs/

» I used to be a bit more fastidious.

Meaning

4 senses

Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
pingelig, penibel, übergenau
брезгли́выйbrezglívyj
прискіпливийpryskiplyvyj, скрупульознийskrupulʹoznyj, ретельнийretelʹnyj
giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
anspruchsvoll, wählerisch, kleinlich
прихотли́выйprixotlívyj
вередливийveredlyvyj
Having precise requirements for nutrition and environment (chemical and physical); especially, being difficult to culture because of those requirements.
fastidious organism
fastidious species

Examples

8 sentences

I used to be a bit more fastidious.
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Tom is fastidious.
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I am fastidious when practicing my kegels.
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This is fastidious, detailed, but very important work.
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He's very fastidious when it comes to booking trips.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 2

overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness:

difficult to please:

Русский

By meaning 2

overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness:

difficult to please:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness:

difficult to please:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin fastīdiōsus (“passive: that feels disgust, disdainful, scornful, fasti

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.

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