Word meaning
fastidious
adjective · fa-STID-ee-us
What does fastidious mean?
Fastidious means very attentive to accuracy and detail; hard to please.
Fastidious in a sentence
“He's fastidious about ironing his shirts.”
Synonyms for fastidious
- meticulous
- particular
- fussy
How to remember fastidious
- Say it out loud a few times: fa-STID-ee-us.
- Write one sentence of your own using fastidious, about something that happened to you today.
- Quiz yourself tomorrow, in three days, and next week. Spaced reviews are what make new words stick.
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