Word Meanings - FASTIDIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young. Syn. -- Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. --

Additional info about word: FASTIDIOUS

Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young. Syn. -- Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. -- 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. (more info) loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FASTIDIOUS)

• Critical
• Nice
• delicate
• exact
• fastidious
• discriminating
• censorious
• accurate
• dubious
• precarious
• ticklish
• crucial
• important
• momentous
• hazardous
• Fastidious
• scrupulous
• neat
• discerning
• dainty
• pleasant
• agreeable
• fine
• finished
• particular
• Particular
• Local
• specific
• subordinate
• detailed
• partial
• special
• minute
• careful
• circumstantial
• precise
• nice
• Querulous
• Quarrelsome
• complaining
• fretful
• repining
• discontented
• dissatisfied
• chiding
• murmuring
• whining
• peevish
• irritable

Related words: (words related to FASTIDIOUS)

• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• REPINER
  One who repines.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
  The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• WHINYARD
  from AS. winn contention, war + geard, gyrd, a staff, rod, yard; or 1. A sword, or hanger. 2. Etym: The shoveler. The poachard.
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• IRRITABLE
  Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. (more info) 1. Capable of being irriated. 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as,
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
• EXACTION
  1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
• ACCURATE
  1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge,
• ACCURATELY
  In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
• PARTIALISM
  Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
• GLOCHIDIUM
  The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• RACHIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• INACCURATE
  Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc. The expression is plainly inaccurate. Bp. Hurd. Syn. -- Inexact; incorrect; erroneous; faulty; imperfect;
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• ACRITICAL
  Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.