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.

1 . fastidious

[ a]

Meaning (1):
- giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness

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Meaning (2):
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures

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certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements;
fastidious microorganisms

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Fastidious organism
Fastidious organism is an organism that is difficult to isolate or cultivate on ordinary culture media because of its need for special nutritional

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