Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who believes in any form of perfectionism.
- noun Specifically [capitalized] A member of the Oneida Community. See
community . Also calledBible Communist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who has a
propensity for being displeased with anything that is notperfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards
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Examples
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My surgeon had a national reputation and was known as a perfectionist.
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Which, judging by the copious accounts of her doings, she was, but Gladys was also a vain perfectionist, obsessed with the “kink” in her nose that kept her from possessing a perfect Grecian profile – an obsession that led to the ruination of her beauty before she was yet forty.
An Aristocratic Ménage: Consuelo, Sunny and Gladys | Edwardian Promenade 2008
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During the Boston performance, Europe, who was known as a perfectionist and a demanding leader, had told one of his drummers to “put more pep in the sticks.”
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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During the Boston performance, Europe, who was known as a perfectionist and a demanding leader, had told one of his drummers to “put more pep in the sticks.”
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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During the Boston performance, Europe, who was known as a perfectionist and a demanding leader, had told one of his drummers to “put more pep in the sticks.”
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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There are, in short, perfectionist reformers as well as religionists, who wait to see the salvation which it is the task of humanity itself to work out, and who look down from a region of ineffable self-complacence on their dusty and toiling brethren who are resolutely doing whatsoever their hands find to do for the removal of the evils around them.
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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There are, in short, perfectionist reformers as well as religionists, who wait to see the salvation which it is the task of humanity itself to work out, and who look down from a region of ineffable self-complacence on their dusty and toiling brethren who are resolutely doing whatsoever their hands find to do for the removal of the evils around them.
Criticism, Part 4, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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There are, in short, perfectionist reformers as well as religionists, who wait to see the salvation which it is the task of humanity itself to work out, and who look down from a region of ineffable self-complacence on their dusty and toiling brethren who are resolutely doing whatsoever their hands find to do for the removal of the evils around them.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Mumbai, February 17: It seems Imran Khan wants to take over the word perfectionist from his uncle Aamir Khan, sounds wacky!
WN.com - Articles related to Delhi CM to meet Sibal, discuss private school fee issue 2010
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Mumbai, February 17: It seems Imran Khan wants to take over the word perfectionist from his uncle Aamir Khan, sounds wacky!
WN.com - Articles related to Delhi CM to meet Sibal, discuss private school fee issue 2010
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