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perfectionist

The correct spelling is perfectionist.

How to pronounce perfectionist

noun

Say it like: Per-fec-sho-nis-t

The correct spelling is perfectionist. Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards. For example: "perfectionistic parents"

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perfectionistic parents

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
  2. 2.Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
  3. 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.

adjective

  1. 1.Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
  2. 2.Inclined or related to perfectionism.

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