Explore Fastidious through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like meticulous or picky. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Fastidious meaning
- Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
- Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
- Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
Synonyms of Fastidious
Using Fastidious
- The main meaning on this page is: Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness. | Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness. | Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
- Useful related words include: unfastidious, meticulous, picky, particular.
- In the example corpus, fastidious often appears in combinations such as: the fastidious, fastidious and, fastidious about.
Context around Fastidious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fastidious
- In this selection, "fastidious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, overly, intelligent, minded, recycler, groomers and precautions stand out and add context to how "fastidious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are intelligent fastidious groomers and and but the fastidious jury scrutinised. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fastidious" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fastidious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Rats are intelligent, fastidious groomers, and very cuddly. (8 words)
We appear to be fickle minded, fastidious, armchair critics. (9 words)
Hill is fastidious about the facts to the point of pedantry. (11 words)
In the France of the time, which was fastidious when it came to gastronomy and still not very forgiving of new faces determined to make their mark, caviar succeeded in establishing itself — a first feat— and even conquered the most refined palates. (42 words)
Big D, as he was often called, was fastidious about standards in the little public bar, training his regulars to clear tables of empty glasses and plates promptly, and to keep the log fire stoked on winter evenings. (38 words)
Jackson (1988:xxix) Dr Chasuble and Miss Prism are characterised by a few light touches of detail, their old-fashioned enthusiasms, and the Canon's fastidious pedantry, pared down by Wilde during his many redrafts of the text. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Hill is fastidious about the facts to the point of pedantry.
I would continue with all of the methods you have employed, remembering to be fastidious with the trap upkeep, add some diatomaceous earth to your arsenal and hopefully gain the upper hand over your snail population.
In the France of the time, which was fastidious when it came to gastronomy and still not very forgiving of new faces determined to make their mark, caviar succeeded in establishing itself — a first feat— and even conquered the most refined palates.
Mainly because I rarely eat potatoes anymore, but also because you’re tainting my recycling and I’m quite the fastidious recycler.
She also said the moggie is quite fastidious and brings back a 'full set' of anything she managed to find.
While bird-watching might have been historically associated with the elderly or overly fastidious, in recent years it has become more “cool” and drifted into the mainstream.
Big D, as he was often called, was fastidious about standards in the little public bar, training his regulars to clear tables of empty glasses and plates promptly, and to keep the log fire stoked on winter evenings.
Rats are intelligent, fastidious groomers, and very cuddly.
The fastidious would not rank Rahat among the finest poets, but the poets who would qualify for their esteem would never have audiences of thousands in their thrall, Mushaira after Mushaira, across India, indeed, worldwide.
These adventures were brief and forgotten by all but the most fastidious of fans.
Trump has made mockery of his rival’s fastidious precautions one of his central campaign themes.
We appear to be fickle minded, fastidious, armchair critics.
By comparison, Samsung’s Galaxy series (especially S8 and newer) have a wonderfully thorough UI for fastidious photographers, including control over shutter speed, exposure, aperture, white balance, and manual focus.
She also represented a painter of fastidious astral abstractions, throughout the gallery’s run.
The 300-odd entries had been assessed and fact-checked by knowledge partner PWC to arrive at a short-list but the fastidious jury scrutinised every one of these painstakingly.
Even his most fastidious supporters admit in private that only a miracle and unprecedented rigging can bring them back to power in 2019.
Penalties are all the rage in Russia, as is cordially cleaning up after yourself, the world having been schooled on their manners by fastidious fans from Japan and Senegal.
Because of their fastidious and proud nature, Shiba puppies are easy to housebreak and in many cases will housebreak themselves.
Domitian's administration of the Roman army was characterized by the same fastidious involvement he exhibited in other branches of the government.
Jackson (1988:xxix) Dr Chasuble and Miss Prism are characterised by a few light touches of detail, their old-fashioned enthusiasms, and the Canon's fastidious pedantry, pared down by Wilde during his many redrafts of the text.
Common combinations with fastidious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: