Definitions
Very attentive to detail and hard to please.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“He had at first tried to clean up as they ate, his fastidious nature kicking in, but Chris had told him to just stop, he was blocking the TV.”
“As she cleaned the room daily, she knew it was against his fastidious nature to bring or have food in his room.”
“His fastidious nature had been evident in his careful snipping of a customer's hair and now he guided his pencil with the same adroitness.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Very exacting”10 letters
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