fastidious

Meaning

1. Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
2. Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
3. Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
4. Having precise requirements for nutrition and environment (chemical and physical); especially, being difficult to culture because of those requirements.

Synonyms

squeamish

choosy

fussy

exacting

dainty

picky

hard to please

meticulous

finicky

pernickety

capricious

particular

finical

whimsical

donnish

chary

punctual

moody

exigent

scrupulous

selective

discriminating

nitpick

fickle

troublesome

faddy

nice

niggly

nit-picking

overnice

pedantic

peevish

pettifogging

precious

precise

prim

punctilious

quarrelsome

quirky

rigid

scholastic

scornful

snobbish

taxing

tortuous

touchy

wanton

wayward

being particular about

hard-to-please

Translations

anspruchsvoll

wählerisch

méticuleux

pingelig

exigente

minutieux

exigeant

titiz

pignolo

pointilleux

meticuloso

verwöhnt

meticoloso

fastidieux

kieskeurig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fæˈstɪdi.əs/

Etymology

Cognate with French: fastidieux

In summary

Borrowed from Latin fastīdiōsus (“passive: that feels disgust, disdainful, scornful, fastidious; active: that causes disgust, disgusting, loathsome”), from fastīdium (“a loathing, aversion, disgust, niceness of taste, daintiness, etc.”), perhaps for *fastutidium, from fastus (“disdain, haughtiness, arrogance, disgust”) + taedium (“disgust”). Cf. French fastidieux.