Facetious vs Fastidious - What's the difference?
facetious | fastidious |
Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
Pleasantly humorous, jocular.
Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
* 2008 , Robert Fisher, Memory Road , [http://books.google.com/books?id=TGyAvuZt5VoC&pg=PA37&dq=his+fastidious+nature+clean&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4WCLUNmDLbPF0AGpmoDgDQ&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBQ]:
* 2004 , Maria Osborne Perr, Ravished Wings , [http://books.google.com/books?id=GEno70HQAQgC&pg=PA153&dq=his+fastidious+nature+clean&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4WCLUNmDLbPF0AGpmoDgDQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw]:
* 2003 , Lynsay Sands, Single White Vampire :
* He had at first tried to clean up as they ate, his fastidious nature kicking in, but Chris had told him to just stop, he was blocking the TV.
Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
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As adjectives the difference between facetious and fastidious
is that facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant while fastidious is excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.facetious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Robbie's joke about Heather's picture was just him being facetious .
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* * * English words that use all vowels in alphabetical orderfastidious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- His fastidious nature had been evident in his careful snipping of a customer's hair and now he guided his pencil with the same adroitness.
- As she cleaned the room daily, she knew it was against his fastidious nature to bring or have food in his room.
- "It's burn[t], M'sieur," said Marie Louise, politely, but decidedly, to the utter confusion of Mr. Billy, who was as mortified as could be at the failure of his dinner to please his fastidious little visitor.
- You're too fastidious, and too indolent, and too rich.