fastidious

Adjective

Meaning

Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

difficult critical exacting punctilious squeamish overnice victorian prissy prim goldilocks particular religious anal pedant bluenose
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Antonyms

unfastidious shaggy askew confused ensemble spotted
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Phrases with the word

extremely fastidious fastidious organism

Examples

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. Jean de La Fontaine

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. Thomas Babington Macaulay

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous. Henny Youngman

These feeble and fastidious times. William Wordsworth

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle. Mason Cooley

Close letter words and terms

Fasthorse fasti fastidiosity fastidious organism fastidiously fastidiousness