fastidious

/fæs'tidiəs/

Thân thiện

A botanist is fastidious about the growing conditions for her rare orchids.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy, detail, or cleanliness: Describes a person who is very careful, precise, and hard to please, often showing excessive concern for matters of taste or propriety.
   • (Biology) Having complex nutritional requirements: Describes microorganisms that require specific, often elaborate, growth conditions.

Usage

• As an adjective, "fastidious" is used to describe a person's character or behavior. It can have a neutral or slightly negative connotation, implying someone is overly particular.
• In biology, it is a technical term used to describe organisms with specific growth needs.

Examples

• General Usage:

  • She is fastidious about her work, checking every detail twice.
  • He was too fastidious to eat at the casual street food stall.
  • A fastidious editor corrected every minor typo in the manuscript.

• Biological Usage:

  • The fastidious bacteria would not grow on the standard culture medium.
  • This fastidious pathogen requires a very specific host.

Advanced Usage

• "Fastidious in one's habits/tastes": Extremely careful and particular about one's personal routines or preferences.
  • He was fastidious in his habits, arranging his desk with military precision.
• "Fastidious attention to detail": A phrase highlighting meticulous care.
  • The restoration was carried out with fastidious attention to detail.

Variants and Related Words

• Fastidiously (adverb): In a very careful and precise manner.
  • The room was fastidiously clean.
• Fastidiousness (noun): The quality of being fastidious.
  • His fastidiousness sometimes slowed down the project.

Synonyms

• Meticulous: Showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.
• Fussy: Excessively concerned with minor details; hard to please.
• Particular: Insisting on specific standards or details.
• Finicky: Fussy about one's needs or requirements.
• Exacting: Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.

Antonyms

• Sloppy: Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.
• Uncritical: Not expressing criticism or careful judgment.
• Undemanding: Not requiring much care or effort.

Idioms and Phrases

• "Fastidious about (something)": This is the most common construction, indicating what a person is particularly careful or fussy about.
  • She is fastidious about her grammar.
  • He's fastidious about his appearance.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
   • fastidious microorganisms
   • certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements
2. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
   • a fastidious and incisive intellect
   • fastidious about personal cleanliness

Từ đồng nghĩa

• exacting