C1 noun #16,092 most common

Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.

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  • (noun) Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
  • (noun) Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
  • (noun) One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
  2. 2
    noun Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
  3. 3
    noun One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.
  4. 4
    adjective Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
  5. 5
    adjective Inclined or related to perfectionism.

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