4syllables
perfectionist
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Definitions ofperfectionist
1noun
- Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
- Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
- 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.
1adjective
- Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
Example: "perfectionistic parents"
- Inclined or related to perfectionism.
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