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fastidious - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'fastidious' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fastidious [ a.]
- Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.

Meaning of 'fastidious' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fastidious [ a]
Meaning (1):
- giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
Example in sentence:
  • a fastidious and incisive intellect;
  • fastidious about personal cleanliness
Meaning (2):
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
Example in sentence:
  • certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements;
  • fastidious microorganisms