| slovo | definícia |
fastidious
(encz) | fastidious,mlsný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fastidious
(encz) | fastidious,náročný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fastidious
(encz) | fastidious,pečlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fastidious
(encz) | fastidious,vybíravý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fastidious
(encz) | fastidious,zhýčkaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Fastidious
(gcide) | Fastidious \Fas*tid"i*ous\, a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr.
fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of
uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. Tedious, Fash.]
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with
difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a
fastidious appetite.
[1913 Webster]
Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. --Young.
Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious.
Usage: Fastidious, Squeamish. We call a person fastidious
when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling
defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is
excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also
when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty.
"Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to
be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and
scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish." --Crabb. --
Fas*tid"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Fas*tid"i*ous*ness, n.
Fastigiate |
fastidious
(wn) | fastidious
adj 1: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please;
excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and
incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal
cleanliness" [ant: unfastidious]
2: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially
growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious
microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are
extremely exacting in their requirements" [syn: fastidious,
exacting] [ant: unfastidious] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
fastidiously
(encz) | fastidiously,úzkostlivě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
fastidiousness
(encz) | fastidiousness,zhýčkanost n: Zdeněk Brož |
unfastidious
(encz) | unfastidious, adj: |
Fastidious
(gcide) | Fastidious \Fas*tid"i*ous\, a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr.
fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of
uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. Tedious, Fash.]
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with
difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a
fastidious appetite.
[1913 Webster]
Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. --Young.
Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious.
Usage: Fastidious, Squeamish. We call a person fastidious
when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling
defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is
excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also
when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty.
"Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to
be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and
scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish." --Crabb. --
Fas*tid"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Fas*tid"i*ous*ness, n.
Fastigiate |
Fastidiously
(gcide) | Fastidious \Fas*tid"i*ous\, a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr.
fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of
uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. Tedious, Fash.]
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with
difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a
fastidious appetite.
[1913 Webster]
Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. --Young.
Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious.
Usage: Fastidious, Squeamish. We call a person fastidious
when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling
defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is
excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also
when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty.
"Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to
be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and
scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish." --Crabb. --
Fas*tid"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Fas*tid"i*ous*ness, n.
Fastigiate |
Fastidiousness
(gcide) | Fastidious \Fas*tid"i*ous\, a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr.
fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of
uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. Tedious, Fash.]
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with
difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a
fastidious appetite.
[1913 Webster]
Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. --Young.
Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious.
Usage: Fastidious, Squeamish. We call a person fastidious
when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling
defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is
excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also
when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty.
"Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to
be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and
scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish." --Crabb. --
Fas*tid"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Fas*tid"i*ous*ness, n.
Fastigiate |
fastidiously
(wn) | fastidiously
adv 1: in a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a
waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of
selling" [syn: painstakingly, fastidiously]
2: in a fastidious manner; "he writes extremely musical music,
of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet
agreeably spontaneous and imaginative" |
fastidiousness
(wn) | fastidiousness
n 1: the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or
style; "neatness and fastidiousness of dress" |
unfastidious
(wn) | unfastidious
adj 1: not exacting in nutritional requirements [ant:
exacting, fastidious]
2: marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to
detail; not concerned with cleanliness; "unfastidious in her
dress" [ant: fastidious] |
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