In keeping with its Latin roots, fastidious once meant "haughty," "disgusting," and "disagreeable," although those uses are now archaic or obsolete. Today, the word is most often applied to people who are very meticulous or overly difficult to please, or to work which reflects a demanding or precise attitude.
How do you use the word fastidious?
Fastidious in a Sentence ?
- My mother was a fastidious woman who always had a complaint on her lips.
- Arrogant and fastidious, the diva made no friends on her music tour.
- While Henry would eat just about anything, his wife was so fastidious she barely ate anything.
Is there a word fastidious?
excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater. requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking.
