Dictionary Definition
perfectionist n : a person is displeased by
anything that does not meet very high standards
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- One who has a propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
Translations
person
- Finnish: perfektionisti
- French: perfectionniste m|f
- German: Perfektionist
- Spanish: perfeccionista m|f
Related terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Babbitt, Leibnizian, Leibnizian
optimist, Middle American, Philistine, Pollyanna, anal character,
aspirant, aspirer, bourgeois, bright, burgher, captious critic,
censorious, cheerful, chiliast, chiliastic, choicy, choosy, compulsive character,
conformer, conformist, conscientious, conventionalist, couleur
de rose, critical,
demanding, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formalist, fuss-budget,
fusspot, fussy, hopeful, hoper, irrepressible optimist,
methodologist,
meticulous,
middle-class type, millenarian, millennialist, millennialistic,
millennian, model
child, nit-picking, nitpicker, obsessive, optimist, optimistic, organization man,
parrot, particular, pedant, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian,
perfectionistic,
philosophical optimist, picky, plastic person, precise, precisian, precisianist, precisianistic, precisionist, priggish, prudish, punctilious, purist, puristic, puritanic, ray of sunshine,
rose-colored, roseate,
rosy, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, sheep, square, stickler, strict, sunny, teenybopper, trimmer, upbeat, utopian, yes-man