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English adjective: fastidious | |||
| 1. | fastidious giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness | ||
| Samples | A fastidious and incisive intellect. Fastidious about personal cleanliness. | ||
| Similar | choosey, choosy, dainty, finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, nice, old-maidish, old-womanish, overnice, particular, pernickety, persnickety, picky, prissy, squeamish | ||
| See also | refined, tidy | ||
| Antonyms | unfastidious | ||
| 2. | fastidious having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | ||
| Samples | Fastidious microorganisms. Certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements. | ||
| Synonyms | exacting | ||
| Domain category | microbiology | ||
| Antonyms | unfastidious | ||
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