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perfectible |
perfection |
perfectional |
perfectionate |
perfectionism |
perfectionist
| perfectionment
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| perfective aspect
| perfective tense
| perfectively
perfectionist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun perfectionist has 1 sense
- perfectionist(n = noun.person) Array - a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards; Array is a kind of compulsive
Derived forms noun perfection3, noun perfection2, noun perfection1, noun perfectionism1
CIDE DICTIONARY
perfectionist, n.
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]
THESAURUS
perfectionist
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
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