'Perfectionist' definitions:
Definition of 'perfectionist'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards
Definition of 'Perfectionist'
From: GCIDE
- Perfectionist \Per*fec"tion*ist\, n.
- 1. One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person who insists on perfect results from himself or from others, in any endeavor. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'perfectionist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anal character,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- Babbitt,
- 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,
- Leibnizian,
- Leibnizian optimist,
- methodologist,
- meticulous,
- Middle American,
- middle-class type,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennialistic,
- millennian,
- model child,
- nit-picking,
- nitpicker,
- obsessive,
- optimist,
- optimistic,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- particular,
- pedant,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionistic,
- Philistine,
- philosophical optimist,
- picky,
- plastic person,
- Pollyanna,
- 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