perfectionist

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
  2. Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life. archaic
    — I have read in some of our perfectionists enough to make a better man than myself either run into madness or despair about the grace you mention […].
  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. US,historical
形容词 adj.
  1. Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
    — perfectionistic parents
  2. Inclined or related to perfectionism.

词形变化

perfectionists plural more perfectionist comparative most perfectionist superlative

词汇关系

相关词
perfectionism perfectionistic

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English perfection
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English perfectionist
From perfection + -ist.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English perfection
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English perfectionist
From perfection + -ist.
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