Perfectionist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Perfectionist is a noun meaning Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
Meaning
Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
More Meanings
- (philosophy, now rare) Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
- Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
- (philosophy) Inclined or related to perfectionism.
- (US, historical) 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.
Example Sentences
perfectionistic parents
For quotations using this term, see Citations:perfectionist.
I have read in some of our perfectionists enough to make a better man than myself either run into madness or despair about the grace you mention […].
Word Forms
- perfectionists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include idealizer, absolutist, stickler, pissant, precisianist, idealiser.
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