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Definition of Fastidious
Fastidious

Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.

Related Definitions:
Appetite, As, Delicate, Difficult, Difficulty, Ear, Fastidious, Fault, Mind, Or, Please, Squeamish, Suited, To, With


Fastidious Quotations

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.
Henny Youngman

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Jean de La Fontaine

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
Mason Cooley

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
Marie Osmond

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Thomas Reid

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Fastidious Translations

fastidious in Latin is fastidiosus
fastidious in Norwegian is kresen


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