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fastidious 音标拼音: [fæst'ɪdiəs] a. 难取悦的,挑剔的,苛求的 难取悦的,挑剔的,苛求的 fastidious adj 1: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; " a fastidious and incisive intellect"; " fastidious about personal cleanliness" [ ant: { unfastidious}] 2: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; " fastidious microorganisms"; " certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" [ synonym: { fastidious}, { exacting}] [ ant: { unfastidious}] Fastidious \ Fas* tid" i* ous\, a. [ L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr. fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance ( of uncertain origin) taedium loathing. Cf. { Tedious}, { Fash}.] Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. [ 1913 Webster] Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. -- Young. Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. Usage: { Fastidious}, { Squeamish}. We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. " Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish." -- Crabb. -- { Fas* tid" i* ous* ly}, adv. -- { Fas* tid" i* ous* ness}, n. Fastigiate99 Moby Thesaurus words for " fastidious": accurate, appreciative, bleached, bright, careful, censorious, choicy, choosy, civilized, clean, cleanly, conscientious, critical, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, differential, difficult, dirt- free, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, elegant, exact, exacting, fair, fine, finical, finicky, fresh, fussy, graceful, gracile, gracious, hypercritical, immaculate, kosher, meticulous, nice, nit- picking, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, overconscientious, overscrupulous, particular, perfectionistic, picky, polished, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prudish, punctilious, punctual, pure, puristic, puritanic, refined, religious, ritually pure, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, shiny, smut- free, smutless, sophisticated, spotless, squeamish, stainless, strict, subtle, sweet, tactful, tahar, tender- conscienced, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, well- scrubbed, well- washed, white, whitened
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