Meaning and example
giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
A fastidious and incisive intellect
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.385 places fastidious in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 92.1% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 92.1%
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
- Known by
- 92%
the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected
- Known by
- 92.4%
corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- Known by
- 92.4%
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- Known by
- 92.5%
ostentatiously lofty in style
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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