FASTIDIOUS: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for FASTIDIOUS?

Need another word that means the same as “fastidious”? Find 11 synonyms and 30 related words for “fastidious” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Fastidious” are: exacting, scrupulous, punctilious, painstaking, meticulous, assiduous, sedulous, perfectionist, fussy, finicky, dainty

Fastidious as an Adjective

Definitions of "Fastidious" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “fastidious” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.
• Very concerned about matters of cleanliness.
• Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness.
• Having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures.

Synonyms of "Fastidious" as an adjective (11 Words)

assiduous	Marked by care and persistent effort. Assiduous research.
dainty	Affectedly dainty or refined. A dainty dish to set before a kind.
exacting	Making great demands on one’s skill, attention, or other resources. The exacting standards laid down by the organic food industry.
finicky	Exacting especially about details. A finicky eater.
fussy	Fastidious about one’s needs or requirements; hard to please. A fussy design.
meticulous	Marked by extreme care in treatment of details. Almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities.
painstaking	Done with or employing great care and thoroughness. Painstaking attention to detail.
perfectionist	Refusing to accept any standard short of perfection.
punctilious	Marked by precise accordance with details. Punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette.
scrupulous	Having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled. Scrupulous attention to details.
sedulous	Marked by care and persistent effort. Sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles.

Usage Examples of "Fastidious" as an adjective

• Fastidious about personal cleanliness.
• She dressed with fastidious care.
• A fastidious and incisive intellect.
• Fastidious microorganisms.
• The child seemed fastidious about getting her fingers dirty.

Associations of "Fastidious" (30 Words)

austere	Severe or strict in manner or attitude. Conditions in the prison could hardly be more austere.
busy	Unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability engaged is a British term for a busy telephone line. Her line is busy.
demanding	(of a task) requiring much skill or effort. Found the job very demanding.
detailed	Developed or executed with care and in minute detail. A detailed plan.
exacting	Making great demands on one’s skill, attention, or other resources. The exacting standards laid down by the organic food industry.
finicky	Showing or requiring great attention to detail. A finicky eater.
fuss	A display of unnecessary or excessive excitement, activity, or interest. He didn t put up too much of a fuss.
fussy	Fastidious about one’s needs or requirements; hard to please. Eleanor patted her hair with quick fussy movements.
grumpy	Bad-tempered and irritable. His performance as the grumpy gateman.
martinet	Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms. The woman in charge was a martinet who treated all those beneath her like children.
meticulous	Marked by precise accordance with details. Meticulous research.
moralist	A person who behaves in a morally commendable way.
painstakingly	In a fastidious and painstaking manner. It is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling.
pedantic	Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous. His analyses are careful and even painstaking but never pedantic.
picky	Fussy and hard to please. They are becoming increasingly picky about where they stay.
priggish	Exaggeratedly proper. She was priggish about sex.
prim	Dress primly. They mince and prim.
prissy	Exaggeratedly proper. A middle class family with two prissy children.
puritanical	Morally rigorous and strict. She was anything but puritanical in her behavior.
rigid	Unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible. A rigid strip of metal.
rigour	Something hard to endure. The rigours of a harsh winter.
squeamish	Having fastidious moral views; scrupulous. I ve always been squeamish about bugs.
stern	Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor forbidding in aspect. A stern face.
stickle	A section of river where the bed slopes and the water is shallow and runs swiftly; a rapid.
stickler	A person who insists on a certain quality or type of behaviour. I m a stickler when it comes to timekeeping.
stoutly	In a resolute manner. The houses are built stoutly of granite.
strict	Characterized by strictness severity or restraint. A strict vegetarian.
stringent	(of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting. Stringent safety measures.
stringently	In a stringent manner. Stringently controlled.
thoroughgoing	Exemplifying a specified characteristic fully; absolute. Thoroughgoing research.