fastidious
B2CEFR level
48/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General adjective
Very attentive to detail; hard to please.
A fastidious editor, she queried every comma.
Medicine adjective
Requiring specialised or enriched media and conditions to grow in culture.
Fastidious organisms such as HACEK bacteria may need prolonged incubation before they are recovered.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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