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perfectionist

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of perfectionist

a person who wants things to be done perfectly or who tries to do things perfectly

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, which makes it difficult for me to finish things sometimes.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of perfectionist

emotionalist, sentimentalist

Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealist, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, utopian, visionary

daydreamer, fantasizer, woolgatherer

Micawber, optimist, Pollyanna

do-gooder, reformer

doctrinaire, theorist, thinker

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of perfectionist

cynic, defeatist, pessimist

empiric, empiricist

hardnose, pragmatist, realist

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