fastidious

1. Giving careful attention to detail;
   Hard to please;
   Excessively concerned with cleanliness (synset 300987053)
   "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
   also:

   • refined - (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
   • tidy - marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits
   similar to:

   • choosey, choosy - difficult to please
   • dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish - excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
   • finical, finicky, fussy, particular, picky - exacting especially about details
   • meticulous - marked by extreme care in treatment of details
   • pernickety, persnickety - characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
   • old-maidish, old-womanish - primly fastidious
2. Having complicated nutritional requirements;
   Especially growing only in special artificial cultures (synset 300988799)
   "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"
   referred to in: microbiology - the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans
   same as: exacting

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