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• a  giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
  a fastidious and incisive intellect
  fastidious about personal cleanliness
• a  having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
  fastidious microorganisms

• Bert is an organized and fastidious student who rarely makes a mistake.
• The fastidious editor threw the reporter's story out of window and told him to rewrite the whole thing again.
• Verne is a fastidious dresser whose clothes are always neat and perfectly cut, with a fanciful touch here and there.

• exacting

• unfastidious

News & Articles

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• Artistry: From Gas Stations to Chapels, an Entire Town Done in Mini
  Photo via Design Boom Presented at this year's Venice Art Biennale: the fastidious work of Austrian insurance clerk-turned-miniatures maven Peter Fritz. In 1993, artist Oliver Croy unearthed the 387 parcels of provincial architecture—an encyclopedic array of bank buildings, farmhouses, fabric...
  June 5, 2013 - Curbed

Quotes

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• Guillermo del Toro in Los Angeles Times
  Asked about the film and what he wants to avoid with it, Del Toro said: "What I want to do is make the best movie I have ever done. What I want to avoid is to make some fastidious tracing of lines that were established by the 'Lord of the Rings'...
• Fernando Gabeira in Bloomberg
  Apart from the macroeconomic policy adjustment, which has been successful so far, the government has plunged into the most fastidious, deepest mediocrity,Gabeira said in an interview from his office in Brasilia. "That's upsetting the...
• William Hazlitt in Sydney Morning Herald
  About 200 years ago, essayist William Hazlitt wrote: "I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value. I am fastidious in this respect, and would...