Explore Perfectionist through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like compulsive. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Perfectionist in a sentence
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Perfectionist meaning
- Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
- Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
- One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.
Synonyms of Perfectionist
Using Perfectionist
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards. | Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life. | One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.
- Useful related words include: compulsive.
- In the example corpus, perfectionist often appears in combinations such as: perfectionist and, was perfectionist, the perfectionist.
Context around Perfectionist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Perfectionist
- In this selection, "perfectionist" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, perceptive, super, intentional, judgmental, tendencies and good stand out and add context to how "perfectionist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a nutty perfectionist trying to and a perceptive perfectionist judgmental virgo. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "perfectionist" sits close to words such as accrington, agonizing and allocates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with perfectionist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And she was a tireless worker and was a perfectionist. (10 words)
Last year, the singer explained that he's simply a perfectionist. (11 words)
He was an absolute perfectionist who couldn’t rest until things were done right. (14 words)
She's a perfectionist, for one thing, and someone who, frankly, rarely loses anywhere, least of all on the red clay at Roland Garros, the site of her four French Open titles and home to Olympic tennis this year. (39 words)
That the words her co-stars so often used to describe her – “professional”, “committed”, “a perfectionist” – were coded, or ambiguous niceties to cover up the fact that she was a teen-queen-from-hell. (34 words)
The Costa Rican from Alajuela considers herself a super perfectionist and competitive person; she likes to keep an order of everything and, despite that, she is extroverted and likes to meet people. (32 words)
Q: Is there one part of your game that still bothers you being the perfectionist that you are? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
A perfectionist and high achiever at school, she applied to medical school and received blanket rejections two years running before she was finally accepted.
Harry is a perceptive, perfectionist, judgmental Virgo, while Meghan is a bold, charismatic, confident and spotlight-seeking Leo.
He was a perfectionist who took three weeks to write Alfie and might spend hours tweaking a single chord.
Last year, the singer explained that he's simply a perfectionist.
Of all the signs, Virgos are by far the most detail-oriented, modest, and perfectionist.
Q: Is there one part of your game that still bothers you being the perfectionist that you are?
That the words her co-stars so often used to describe her – “professional”, “committed”, “a perfectionist” – were coded, or ambiguous niceties to cover up the fact that she was a teen-queen-from-hell.
The Costa Rican from Alajuela considers herself a super perfectionist and competitive person; she likes to keep an order of everything and, despite that, she is extroverted and likes to meet people.
And she was a tireless worker and was a perfectionist.
As a perfectionist, I take charge of editing and directing the videos myself, unless directed otherwise.
As someone with perfectionist tendencies, she says posting quick and frequent social media snippets can feel paralyzing.
Cliftonville manager Jim Magilton insists he was “overjoyed” by their win against Coleraine – although he remains ever the perfectionist.
Gov. Abiodun described the late Ogunbanjo as an intellectual, focused, intentional, perfectionist, good, loyal, dependable, reliable and consistent friend and brother.
He’s a perfectionist in many ways and doesn’t want to share things until they’re ready.
He was an absolute perfectionist who couldn’t rest until things were done right.
She’s a perfectionist, and if she decides to do a country album with Shaboozey, she’ll give it her all.
She's a perfectionist, for one thing, and someone who, frankly, rarely loses anywhere, least of all on the red clay at Roland Garros, the site of her four French Open titles and home to Olympic tennis this year.
They describe him, in short, as a sensitive soul, a perfectionist crushed by the stress and frenetic pace of the music industry.
This is when your inherent predisposition towards critical and perfectionist thinking may be counterbalanced by an appreciation of concord and cooperation.
This whole process is the result of a nutty perfectionist trying to chase that feeling of total satisfaction.
Common combinations with perfectionist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- perfectionist and 10×
- was perfectionist 6×
- the perfectionist 5×
- perfectionist who 4×
- is perfectionist 4×
- and perfectionist 3×
- perfectionist that 3×
- of perfectionist 3×
- as perfectionist 2×
- perfectionist in 2×