Meaning : Giving careful attention to detail. Hard to please. Excessively concerned with cleanliness.
Example :
A fastidious and incisive intellect.
Fastidious about personal cleanliness.
Marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail. Not concerned with cleanliness.
Unfastidious in her dress.Meaning : Having complicated nutritional requirements. Especially growing only in special artificial cultures.
Example :
Fastidious microorganisms.
Certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements.
Synonyms : exacting
Not exacting in nutritional requirements.
unfastidious