fastidious.

Very attentive to standards, details, or cleanliness and difficult to satisfy.

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Words that belong together

• fastidious taste
• fastidious attention

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Her fastidious attention caught the tiny seam.

The fastidious guest inspected every glass.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more fastidious; superlative most fastidious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.