UNFASTIDIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfastidious mean? 

• UNFASTIDIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective UNFASTIDIOUS has 2 senses:

1. not exacting in nutritional requirements

2. marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness

  Familiarity information: UNFASTIDIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFASTIDIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not exacting in nutritional requirements

Domain category:

microbiology (the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans)

Antonym:

fastidious (having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness

Context example:

unfastidious in her dress

Also:

unrefined ((used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth)

untidy (not neat and tidy)

Antonym:

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

 Context examples 

That is as formidable an image as you could present, Harriet; and if I thought I should ever be like Miss Bates! so silly—so satisfied—so smiling—so prosing—so undistinguishing and unfastidious—and so apt to tell every thing relative to every body about me, I would marry to-morrow.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)