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fas·tid·i·ous    Audio Help   [fa-stid-ee-uhs, fuh-] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
2.requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < L fastīdiōsus squeamish, equiv. to fastīdi(um) lack of appetite, disgust, perh. by syncope of *fastutīdium (fastu-, comb. form of fastus pride, conceit + -tīdium comb. form of taedium tedium) + -ōsus -ous]

fas·tid·i·ous·ly, adverb
fas·tid·i·ous·ness, noun

1. See particular.
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fas·tid·i·ous    Audio Help   (fā-stĭd'ē-əs, fə-)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail.
  2. Difficult to please; exacting.
  3. Excessively scrupulous or sensitive, especially in matters of taste or propriety. See Synonyms at meticulous.
  4. Microbiology Having complicated nutritional requirements.


[Middle English, squeamish, particular, haughty, from Old French fastidieux, from Latin fastīdiōsus, from fastīdium, squeamishness, haughtiness, probably from fastus, disdain.]

fas·tid'i·ous·ly adv., fas·tid'i·ous·ness n.
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fastidious 
c.1440, "full of pride," from L. fastidiosus "disdainful, squeamish, exacting," from fastidium "loathing," most likely from *fastu-taidiom, a compound of fastus "contempt, arrogance" and tædium "aversion, disgust." Early use in Eng. was in both passive and active senses. Meaning "squeamish, over-nice" emerged in Eng. 1612.

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fastidious

adjective
1. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" [ant: unfastidious
2. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" [ant: unfastidious

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fastidious [fəˈstidiəs, (American) fa-] adjective
very critical and difficult to please
Example: She is so fastidious about her food that she will not eat in a restaurant.
Arabic: صَعْبُ الإرْضاء، نَيِّق، شَديد الحَساسِيَه
Chinese (Simplified): 爱挑剔的,难取悦的
Chinese (Traditional): 愛挑剔的,難取悅的
Czech: náročný, vybíravý
Danish: pedantisk; sirlig
Dutch: kieskeurig
Estonian: nõudlik
Finnish: nirso
French: difficile
German: wählerisch
Greek: σχολαστικός, ιδιότροπος
Hungarian: finnyás
Icelandic: aðfinnslusamur; vandfÿsinn; matvandur
Indonesian: dipuaskan
Italian: difficile, esigente
Japanese: 気むずかしい
Korean: 까다로운
Latvian: izvēlīgs; izlepis; izsmalcināts
Lithuanian: išrankus
Norwegian: kresen, svært nøye
Polish: wybredny, wymagający
Portuguese (Brazil): requintado
Portuguese (Portugal): melindroso
Romanian: pre­tenţios
Russian: привередливый
Slovak: prieberčivý
Slovenian: izbirčen
Spanish: quisquilloso
Swedish: kräsen, nogräknad
Turkish: titiz
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Fastidious

Fash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fashing.] [OF. faschier, F. f?cher, to anger, vex; cf. Pr. fasticar, fastigar, fr. L. fastidium dilike. See Fastidious.] To vex; to tease; to trouble. [Scot.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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