fastidious
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++fas·tid·i·ous /fæˈstɪdiəs/ adjective CAREFULvery careful about small details in your appearance, work etc 挑剔的，讲究的 SYN meticulous people who are fastidious about personal hygiene 十分讲究个人卫生的人 —fastidiously adverb —fastidiousness noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
fastidious• When hungry times set in, the scouts become less fastidious and give lengthy dances even for poor food.• A cat is a fastidious animal that washes itself frequently.• Archie may not have been fastidious, but in his own way he was cultivated.• Such questions are distasteful for a fastidious cleric who thinks of sexuality as a loss of self-control.• His fastidious imagination shied away from the details of Jack's new ménage.• Vibrato, like all flavouring, needs very fastidious use on brass instruments.• And second, the boy was fastidious with his toy.Origin fastidious (1400-1500) Latin fastidiosus, from fastidium “strong dislike”fas·tid·i·ous adjectiveChineseSyllable
your details very about careful in Corpus small work appearance,
fastidious
fas‧tid‧i‧ous /fæˈstɪdiəs/
adjective
SYN meticulous:
people who are fastidious about personal hygiene
—fastidiously adverb
—fastidiousness noun [uncountable]
fas‧tid‧i‧ous /fæˈstɪdiəs/
adjective Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: fastidiosus, from fastidium 'strong dislike'
very careful about small details in your appearance, work etc Language: Latin
Origin: fastidiosus, from fastidium 'strong dislike'
SYN meticulous:
—fastidiously adverb
—fastidiousness noun [uncountable]
sometimes