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Definition
giving careful attention to detailor:
excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste
- She is fastidious in her work.
fastidious = careful and attentive to detail
- They are an odd couple. One is a slob, and the other fastidious.
- She is fastidious about personal cleanliness.
- Her father had been a fastidious man, impeccable, close-shaven, with razor-sharp creases pressed into his trousers.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- Compared with the chaos of Cherry Hill, Northwood was a paradise of neat houses with fastidiously maintained lawns.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- No one ever saw her without the defensive shield of grooming, but she knew what was beneath the fastidiousness and gloss.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- He knew to watch the weather and to kill during an arc of light-to-heavy precipitation because that would rob the police of evidence. But he was not as fastidious as the police liked to think. He forgot...Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
- he had already seen how fastidious Annie was about locking her doors.Stephen King -- Misery
- He looked like a drawing from a men's magazine, fastidiously groomed, a white handkerchief in the breast pocket of his dark suit.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- Your bed is neatly made—you have always been fastidious.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- Both, for example, were fastidious, very attentive to hygiene and the condition of their fingernails.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- Xavier himself had a near-monopoly on fastidiousness in Lonesome Dove.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- He is fastidious about his clothing; their first argument had been over a sweater she'd shrunk in the washing machine.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- How was it that a man so exact and fastidious could have made this error of a day?Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- The workmanship was no less fastidious...J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
- Tjaden has become so fastidious that he only half smokes his cigars.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- At the head of the bed there was a niche in the wall where, fastidiously tidy, stood a candle, a bottle of ink, and a pen with a bundle of papersFranz Kafka -- The Trial
- She had broken up Jane Austen's sentence, and thus given me no chance of pluming myself upon my impeccable taste, my fastidious ear.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- It was evident, from her figure and the perfumes she had about her, that she was young and fastidious in her tastes, but that was all.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- There were still waterbirds taking their fastidious little steps in the saltwater, where mossy trees dipped down as if to drink.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
fastidious = excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste
fastidious = very concerned
fastidious = excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste
fastidiously = in a manner showing careful attention to detail
fastidiousness = excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste
(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means state or degree of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)
fastidious = careful about details
fastidious = giving careful attention to detail
fastidiously = with careful attention to detail
fastidious = careful about detail; or excessively concerned with things like housekeeping
fastidious = excessively concerned with cleanliness
fastidiousness = excessive concern with cleanliness or matters of taste
(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means state or degree of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)
fastidious = giving careful attention to detail
fastidious = giving careful attention to detail
fastidious = with great care to detail
fastidious = excessively concerned with little things
fastidiously = with careful attention to detail
fastidious = tasteful and detail-noticing
fastidious = concerned with matters of good taste
fastidious = giving careful attention to detail