Meaning & use

perfectionist

noun·Academic

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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