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Synonyms & Antonyms of fastidious
hard to please
- he is very fastidious about how he arranges his music collection, and woe to anyone who dares to mess around with it
Synonyms for fastidious
- choosy
- (or choosey),
- dainty,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- exacting,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussbudgety,
- fussy,
- nice,
- old-maidish,
- particular,
- pernickety
- [chiefly British],
- persnickety,
- picky
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“Fastidious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fastidious. Accessed 8 Mar. 2021.
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The first known use of fastidious was in the 15th century
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