English-Thai Dictionary

fastidious

ADJ พิถีพิถัน  เอาใจ ยาก  จุกจิกจู้จี้  meticulous squeamish unfastidious unmeticulous pi-te-pi-tan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FASTIDIOUS

a.[L. fastidiousus, from fastidio, to disdain from fastus, haughtiness. See Heb. ] 1. Disdainful; squeamish; delicate to a fault; over nice; difficult to please; as a fastidious mind or taste.
2. Squeamish; rejecting what is common or not very nice; suited with difficulty; as a fastidious appetite.

 

FASTIDIOUSLY

adv. Disdainfully; squeamishly; contemptuously. they look fastidiously and speak disdainfully.

 

FASTIDIOUSNESS

n.Disdainfulness; contemptuousness; squeamishness of mind, taste or appetite.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FASTIDIOUS

Fas *tid "i *ous, a. Etym: [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr. fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of uncertain origin ) + taedium loathing. Cf. Tedious, Fash. ]

 

Defn: Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth! fastidious of the lower world. Young.

 

Syn. -- Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. -- Fastidious, Squeamish. We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. "Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish. "Crabb. -- Fas *tid "i *ous *ly, adv. -- Fas *tid "i *ous *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fastidious

fas tid i ous |fasˈtidēəs fæˈstɪdiəs | ▶adjective very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail: he chooses his words with fastidious care. • very concerned about matters of cleanliness: the child seemed fastidious about getting her fingers sticky or dirty. DERIVATIVES fas tid i ous ly adverb, fas tid i ous ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin fastidiosus, from fastidium ‘loathing. ’ The word originally meant ‘disagreeable, distasteful, ’ later ‘disgusted ’ Current senses date from the 17th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

fastidious

fastidious |faˈstɪdɪəs | ▶adjective very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail: she dressed with fastidious care. • very concerned about matters of cleanliness: the child seemed fastidious about getting her fingers dirty. DERIVATIVES fastidiously adverb, fastidiousness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin fastidiosus, from fastidium ‘loathing ’. The word originally meant ‘disagreeable ’, later ‘disgusted ’. Current senses date from the 17th cent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fastidious

fastidious adjective he was fastidious about personal hygiene: scrupulous, punctilious, painstaking, meticulous; perfectionist, fussy, finicky, overparticular; critical, overcritical, hypercritical, hard to please, exacting, demanding; informal persnickety, nitpicking, choosy, picky, anal. ANTONYMS lax. WORD TOOLKIT See finicky . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fastidious

fastidious adjective he was fastidious about personal hygiene: scrupulous, punctilious, painstaking, meticulous, assiduous, sedulous, perfectionist, fussy, finicky, dainty, over-particular; critical, overcritical, hypercritical, hard /difficult /impossible to please; pedantic, precise, exact, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding; informal pernickety, nitpicking, choosy, picky; N. Amer. informal persnickety; archaic nice, overnice. ANTONYMS easy-going; sloppy. WORD TOOLKIT fastidious See finicky . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fastidious

fas tid i ous /fæstɪ́diəs, fəs -/形容詞 1 【服装 外見などに 】細心の (注意を払う ), 厳密な «in , about » .2 潔癖な, (あまりに )きれい好きな .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞