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A person is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards
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perfectionist
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Perfectionist is the debut studio album by English singer Natalia Kills . It was released on 1 April 2011 through will.i.am Music Group , Cherrytree Records , KonLive and Interscope . Despite having started out as an actress, Kills later became a rap artist ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perfectionist \Per*fec"tion*ist\, n. One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life. --South.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who has a propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from perfection + -ist . Originally theological, "one who believes moral perfection may be attained in earthly existence;" sense of "one satisfied only with the highest standards" is from 1934. Related: Perfectionism .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Hoffman is known to be a perfectionist who is often hard on directors. ▪ Mart Kenney was a perfectionist , and his high standards were an example to everyone else. ▪ She worked carefully on her drawing, with all the attention ...
Usage examples of perfectionist.
The anatomist was a perfectionist, drawing new anatomic charts in ever greater detail.
On the other hand, the required changes had been put in place by Sue Harbeson Ando and Lee Boro, back on Miranda, and those two ladies were perfectionists.
Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, and People Who Would Really Rather Sleep All Day.
Now there was a real sailor, an asshole to work foranda perfectionist hairsplitter, but the bosun had spent twenty-seven years working for driven men who demanded perfection and were satisfied with nothing less.
He was gruff and plainspoken, relentless, and a perfectionist, yet this was the man who had taught her to swim in icy streams during childhood summers, holding her around the middle while she laughed and paddled.
He was a perfectionist, and he believed his mind was perfect, but a thing was blunted and coarsened as soon as it was made: pure thought could not be transformed into matter, and nothing could be brought to perfection.
On completing her training at Callisto, Laria had taken up her duties with a competenceee that even her perfectionist grandmother couldn't fault.
He gave Sharpe an edge that the Captain had never had, and he worked at it, and worked, and the perfectionist in him would not give up until the fore edge, and the top seven inches of the back, were razor sharp.
Perhaps that's what the queens are: perfectionists but not originators.
Goddamn Italian perfectionists, he cursed, now imperiled by the same artistic excellence he taught his students to revere .