English Explanatory Dictionary

perfectionist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
  2. Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
  3. 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.
adj
  1. Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
  2. Inclined or related to perfectionism.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-perfectionist.wav /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/

Word forms

perfectionist perfectionists more perfectionist most perfectionist

Etymology

From perfection + -ist.

Related words

perfectionism perfectionistic
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