Perfectionist

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  perfectionist
       n : a person is displeased by anything that does not meet very
           high standards

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "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