perfectionist

1. 1.

   a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards

   Broadercompulsive

Other forms of perfectionist

plural

perfectionists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perfectionist

What does perfectionist mean?

perfectionist means "a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards".

How many syllables are in perfectionist?

perfectionist has 4 syllables: per-fec-tio-nist. The stress falls on "fec". In IPA it is /pɚˈfɛkʃənəst/.

Is perfectionist a common word?

perfectionist 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.