fastidious

Questions about fastidious

What does fastidious mean?

fastidious means "giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fastidious?

fastidious has 4 syllables: fa-stid-i-ous. The stress falls on "stid". In IPA it is /fæˈstɪdiəs/.

What is another word for fastidious?

Close synonyms include exacting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fastidious?

The recorded antonyms are unfastidious, unfastidious.

Is fastidious a common word?

fastidious is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.