FASTIDIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fastidiously mean? 

• FASTIDIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb FASTIDIOUSLY has 2 senses:

1. in a fastidious and painstaking manner

2. in a fastidious manner

  Familiarity information: FASTIDIOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASTIDIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a fastidious and painstaking manner

Synonyms:

fastidiously; painstakingly

Context example:

it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling

Pertainym:

fastidious (giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a fastidious manner

Context example:

he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative

Pertainym:

fastidious (giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness)

 Context examples 

It was Kate Flanagan's best Sunday waist, than whom there was no more exacting and fastidiously dressed woman in Maria's world.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was fastidiously exclusive, and no guest at the cottage ever succeeded in making up to him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But he was very tentative, fastidiously so, letting Ruth set the pace of sprightliness and fancy, keeping up with her but never daring to go beyond her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)