All 4 Uses of
fastidious
in
Atlas Shrugged
- An inexplicable kind of distaste, part fastidiousness, part boredom, stopped him whenever he tried to consider it.†
Chpt 1.2
- She looked at the angular tiers of lights rising through the snowy curtain, and-glancing at him, at the grip of his gloved hands on the wheel, at the austere, fastidious elegance of the figure in black overcoat and white muffler-she thought that he belonged in a great city, among polished sidewalks and sculptured stone.†
Chpt 2.1
- She stood there, fastidiously groomed, wearing a...
Chpt 2.2 *fastidiously = giving careful attention to detail
- You owe your love to 'those who don't deserve it, and the less they deserve it, the more love you owe them-the more loathsome the object, the nobler your love-the more unfastidious your love, the greater your virtue-and if you can bring your soul to the state of a dump heap that welcomes anything on equal terms, if you can cease to value moral values, you have achieved the state of moral perfection.†
Chpt 3.7unfastidious = without careful attention to detail OR not concerned with cleanliness or matters of tastestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfastidious means not and reverses the meaning of fastidious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
giving careful attention to detail
or:
excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste
or:
excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste