Meaning & use
perfectionist
A person who demands the highest standards of themselves or others and is often dissatisfied with anything less.
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As a perfectionist, she rewrote the report five times before she felt it was ready.
Their manager, a perfectionist, checked every detail of the presentation before approving it.
A note on using this word
Being a perfectionist can be praised as diligence or criticized as an inability to accept good enough.
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