fastidious

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fas‧tid‧i‧ous/fæˈstɪdiəs/ adjective
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Latin; Origin : fastidiosus, from fastidium 'strong dislike']
very careful about small details in your appearance, work etc SYN meticulous:
　 ▪ people who are fastidious about personal hygiene

—fastidiously adverb

—fastidiousness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A cat is a fastidious animal that washes itself frequently.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And second, the boy was fastidious with his toy.
▪ Archie may not have been fastidious, but in his own way he was cultivated.
▪ His fastidious imagination shied away from the details of Jack's new ménage.
▪ Such questions are distasteful for a fastidious cleric who thinks of sexuality as a loss of self-control.
▪ Vibrato, like all flavouring, needs very fastidious use on brass instruments.
▪ When hungry times set in, the scouts become less fastidious and give lengthy dances even for poor food.