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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Fastidiously (0.00936 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fastidiously
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]
2: in a fastidious manner;
“he writes extremely musical music,
of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet
agreeably spontaneous and imaginative”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fastidiously
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.
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