It's the Word of the Day for April 19.
Today's word is fastidious.
Spelled F-A-S-T-I-D-I-O-U-S.
Fastidious is an adjective.
Someone described as fastidious is extremely or overly careful about how they do something.
Festidious may also describe someone who is difficult to please or someone who always wants to be clean or neat.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Slate by Jack Hamilton.
Becoming Led Zeppelin, filmmaker Bernard McMahon's new documentary about the band,
certainly succeeds at taking Led Zeppelin seriously in ways that might disappoint some viewers but that I found both compelling and refreshing.
Becoming Led Zeppelin doesn't hide that it's an authorized biopic,
but the film is so fastidious and detail-oriented that it never feels like hagiography.
If you presume that the adjective fastidious bears some relation to the word fast, not so fast.
Fastidious comes from the Latin word fastidium, meaning aversion or disgust.
Fastidium is believed to be a combination of fastus, meaning arrogance, and tedium.
irksomeness or disgust.
tedium is also the source of our English words tedium and tedius.
In keeping with its Latin roots, fastidius once meant haughty, disgusting, and disagreeable,
but the word is now most often applied to people who are very meticulous or overly difficult to please.
or to work which reflects a demanding or precise attitude.
Our own fastidiousness requires us to point out that the familiar adjective,