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fastidious

adj
/fæsˈtɪdi.əs/

Etymology

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.

  1. borrowed from fastīdiōsus

Definitions

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

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

    • 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.

  2. Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.

    • "If you are fastidious, clean previously used pots inside and out; if not, merely clean the outside (unless you are battling a pest infestation; then the inside will need scrubbing as well)."

  3. Difficult to please

    Difficult to please; quick to find fault.

    • You're too fastidious, and too indolent, and too rich.
    • "It's burn[t], M'sieur," said Marie Louise, politely, but decidedly, to the utter confusion of Mr. Billy, who was as mortified as could be at the failure of his dinner to please his fastidious little visitor.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Having precise requirements for nutrition and environment (chemical and physical)

      Having precise requirements for nutrition and environment (chemical and physical); especially, being difficult to culture because of those requirements.

      • fastidious organism
      • fastidious species

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Derived

fastidiously, fastidiousness, fastidious organism, hyperfastidious, nonfastidious, overfastidious, ultrafastidious, unfastidious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fastidious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fastidious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at fastidious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA