perfectionist
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
perfectionist
n 1: a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet
very high standards
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Perfectionist \Per*fec"tion*ist\, n.
1. 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.
--South.
[1913 Webster]
2. A person who insists on perfect results from himself or
from others, in any endeavor.
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "perfectionist":
Babbitt, Leibnizian, Leibnizian optimist, Middle American,
Philistine, Pollyanna, anal character, aspirant, aspirer,
bourgeois, bright, burgher, captious critic, censorious, cheerful,
chiliast, chiliastic, choicy, choosy, compulsive character,
conformer, conformist, conscientious, conventionalist,
couleur de rose, critical, demanding, discriminating,
discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formalist, fuss-budget,
fusspot, fussy, hopeful, hoper, irrepressible optimist,
methodologist, meticulous, middle-class type, millenarian,
millennialist, millennialistic, millennian, model child,
nit-picking, nitpicker, obsessive, optimist, optimistic,
organization man, parrot, particular, pedant, perfectibilist,
perfectibilitarian, perfectionistic, philosophical optimist, picky,
plastic person, precise, precisian, precisianist, precisianistic,
precisionist, priggish, prudish, punctilious, purist, puristic,
puritanic, ray of sunshine, rose-colored, roseate, rosy,
scrupulous, selective, sensitive, sheep, square, stickler, strict,
sunny, teenybopper, trimmer, upbeat, utopian, yes-man
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