a. | 1. | Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; |
Adj. | 1. | fastidious - giving and careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" Antonyms: unfastidious - not fastidious; not concerned with cleanliness; "unfastidious in her dress" |
2. | fastidious - having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" Synonyms: exacting Antonyms: unfastidious - not exacting in nutritional requirements |