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[ UK /fɑːstˈɪdɪəs/ ]
[ US /fæˈstɪdiəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
    fastidious microorganisms
    certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements
  2. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
    fastidious about personal cleanliness
    a fastidious and incisive intellect

How To Use fastidious In A Sentence

  • We won't wear "bloomers," or make any attempt to imitate you in our dress, manners, or occupations; we will do nothing to offend the most fastidious, we will be women still. The Womans Advocate
  • Judged by a fastidious panel of music critics, it is the most prestigious award in the music industry calendar. Times, Sunday Times
  • Aside from this fastidious attention to detail, the designer's work has few distinguishing features.
  • Why does a conductor so fastidious and precise with an orchestra always seem so blithely undisturbed by such unidiomatic, out-of-tune singing?
  • Ward had certain fastidious instincts, and he rebelled inwardly at eating, sleeping, and cooking all in one small room. The Ranch at the Wolverine
  • As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting.
  • He was very refined in his conversation -- at least, what I call refined -- for he was one of those persons in whose society one is comfortable from the certainty that they will never say anything which can shock other people, or hurt their feelings, be they ever so fastidious or sensitive. Life of Charles Dickens
  • It was with a child's eager interest and pliant imagination that Bessie looked and listened, -- susceptible, credulous, unfastidious. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
  • He plays it deadpan, with impeccable style and fastidious attention to detail, but of course that only enhances the absurdity.
  • A lyrical, a scholarly, a fastidious mind might have used seclusion and solitude to perfect its powers.
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