Impeccable vs Fastidious - What's the difference?
impeccable | fastidious | Related terms |
Perfect, without faults, flaws or errors
Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
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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Impeccable is a related term of fastidious.
As adjectives the difference between impeccable and fastidious
is that impeccable is perfect, without faults, flaws or errors while fastidious is excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.impeccable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote. -
- He grew up in Norway, but he writes impeccable English.
- It was easy for James V to imprison Lady Glamis, but actually convicting her was far more difficult; her character was impeccable and she was highly respected by all who knew her.
Synonyms
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English
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.
