fastidious

English - Turkish

Definition of fastidious in English Turkish dictionary

{s} titiz

O gezileri rezervasyona gelince çok titizdir. - He's very fastidious when it comes to booking trips.

Tom her zaman arabasına titizlikle baktı. - Tom has always looked after his cars fastidiously.

güç beğenir

(Gıda) nazlı

beğenen

{s} müşkülpesent

zor beğenir

müşkülpesentlik

fastidiousness titizlik

{s} zor beğenen

fastidiously titizlikle

kolay beğenmez

(Gıda) zor gelişen

güç

Related Terms

fastidiously

titizlikle

Tom her zaman arabasına titizlikle baktı. - Tom has always looked after his cars fastidiously.

fastidiousness

{i} müşkülpesentlik

fastidiousness

{i} titizlik

English - English

Definition of fastidious in English English dictionary

Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness

Difficult to please; quick to find fault

It's burn, M'sieur, said Marie Louise, politely, but decidedly, to the utter confusion of Mr. Billy, who was as mortified as could be at the failure of his dinner to please his fastidious little visitor.

Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details

hard to please

{a} squeamishly, nicely, disdainfully

If you say that someone is fastidious, you mean that they are concerned about keeping clean to an extent that many people consider to be excessive. Be particularly fastidious about washing your hands before touching food. + fastidiously fas·tidi·ous·ly Ernestine kept her daughters fastidiously clean. very careful about small details in your appearance, work etc = meticulous (fastidiosus, from fastidium )

giving and careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"

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

having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements

If you say that someone is fastidious, you mean that they pay great attention to detail because they like everything to be very neat, accurate, and in good order. her fastidious attention to historical detail He was fastidious about his appearance. = meticulous

{s} hard to please, critical; choosy; overly refined; painstaking, paying immense attention to minute details

Related Terms

fastidiousness

{n} haughtiness, squeamishness

fastidiously

in a fastidious manner; "he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative

fastidiously

In a fastidious manner

fastidiously

critically; in an overly refined manner; painstakingly, while paying immense attention to minute details

fastidiously

in a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling"

fastidiousness

the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style; "neatness and fastidiousness of dress

fastidiousness

The quality of being fastidious

fastidiousness

{i} pickiness, selectiveness, choosiness; quality of being overly refined; quality of paying extreme attention to minute details

Hyphenation

fas·tid·i·ous

Turkish pronunciation

fästîdiıs

Synonyms

exacting, fussy, meticulous, captious, choosy, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, discriminating, easily disgusted, finical, finicky, fussbudgety, hard to please

Antonyms

indifferent, indiscriminating, uncareful, uncouth, uncritical, undemanding

Pronunciation

/faˈstədēəs/ /fæˈstɪdiːəs/

Etymology

() From Latin fastidiosus (“passive: that feels disgust, disdainful, scornful, fastidious; active: that causes disgust, disgusting, loathsome”) fastidium (“a loathing, aversion, disgust, niceness of taste, daintiness, etc.”), perhaps for *fastutidium fastus (“disdain, haughtiness, arrogance, disgust”) + taedium (“disgust”). Confer French fastidieux.