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1. If you say that someone is fastidious, you mean that they pay great attention to detail because they like everything to be very neat, accurate, and in good order. ...her fastidious attention to historical detail... He was fastidious about his appearance. = meticulous ADJ 2. If you say that someone is fastidious, you mean that they are concerned about keeping clean to an extent that many people consider to be excessive. Be particularly fastidious about washing your hands before touching food. ADJ • fastidiously Ernestine kept her daughters fastidiously clean. ADV ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin fastidiosus, from fastidium disgust, probably from fastus arrogance (probably akin to Latin fastigium top) + taedium irksomeness — more at tedium Date: 15th century 1. archaic scornful 2. a. having high and often capricious standards ; difficult to please critics…so ~ that they can talk only to a small circle of initiates — Granville Hicks b. showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care c. reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude ~ workmanship 3. having complex nutritional requirements ~ microorganisms • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 very careful in matters of choice or taste; fussy. 2 easily disgusted; squeamish. Derivatives fastidiously adv. fastidiousness n. Etymology: ME f. L fastidiosus f. fastidium loathing FASTIGIATE adj. Bot. 1 having a conical or tapering outline. 2 having parallel upright branches. Etymology: L fastigium gable-top ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. разборчивый, привередливый, требовательный don't be so fastidious —- не привередничай he is fastidious about his food —- он очень привередлив в еде 2. брезгливый 3. тонкий; утонченный, изощренный fastidious hands —- тонкие (изящные) руки fastidious mind —- утонченный ум fastidious taste in art —- утонченный художественный вкус ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- early 15c., from L. fastidiosus "disdainful, squeamish, exacting," from fastidium "loathing," most likely from *fastu-taidiom, a compound of fastus "contempt, arrogance" and tжdium "aversion, disgust." Early use in Eng. was in both passive and active senses. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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