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Perfectionist   /pərfˈɛkʃənəst/  /pərfˈɛkʃənɪst/   Listen
Perfectionist

noun
1.
A person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards.





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"Perfectionist" Quotes from Famous Books



... at being made ridiculous, her sense of outrage that a perfectionist like herself should suffer punishment, added to her knowledge of the flight of time on school mornings, strangled her into dumbness. But she clasped the paper in her breast as a drowning man might a spar from ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... avoid letting my perceptive sense rest on the sign as I drove past. Not long enough to put me in danger, but long enough to discover to my surprise that someone had taken the trouble to repair the broken spoke. Someone must have been a perfectionist. The break was so slight that it seemed like calling in a mechanic because the ashtray ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith


Words linked to "Perfectionist" :   compulsive, perfection, perfectionism


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