fastidious English

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fastidious Adjective

— Fastidious means to be very particular about one thing or another; "picky" He is so fastidious about personal cleanliness that he bathes three times a day.

fastidious

— adjective giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness a fastidious and incisive intellect fastidious about personal cleanliness

— adjective (= exacting) 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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fastidious English » English

squeamish

choosy

fussy

picky

hard to please

exacting

dainty

pernickety

meticulous

finicky

particular

capricious

finical

whimsical

troublesome

selective

scrupulous

punctual

nitpick

moody

fickle

faddy

exigent

donnish

discriminating

chary

wayward

wanton

touchy

tortuous

taxing

snobbish

scornful

scholastic

rigid

quirky

quarrelsome

punctilious

prim

precise

precious

pettifogging

peevish

pedantic

overnice

over-nice

nit-picking

niggly

nice

neat