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English
Etymology
From perfection + -ist.
Pronunciation
Noun
perfectionist (plural perfectionists)
- Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
- (philosophy, now rare) Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
- (US, historical) 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.
Translations
person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: mükəmməliyyətçi
- Belarusian: перфекцыяні́ст m (pjerfjekcyjaníst), перфекцыяні́стка f (pjerfjekcyjanístka)
- Catalan: perfeccionista m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 完美主義者 / 完美主义者 (zh) (wánměi zhǔyì zhě)
- Czech: perfekcionista (cs) m, perfekcionistka f
- Danish: perfektionist c
- Dutch: perfectionist (nl) m, perfectioniste f
- Estonian: perfektsionist, täiuslikkuseihaleja
- Finnish: perfektionisti (fi)
- French: perfectionniste (fr) m or f
- German: Perfektionist (de) m, Perfektionistin (de) f
- Greek: τελειομανής (el) m or f (teleiomanís), τελειοθήρας m (teleiothíras)
- Hungarian: maximalista (hu)
- Icelandic: fullkomnunarsinni m
- Italian: perfezionista (it) m or f
- Japanese: 完全主義者 (かんぜんしゅぎしゃ, kanzenshugisha), 完璧主義者 (かんぺきしゅぎしゃ, kanpekishugisha)
- Kannada: ಪರಿಪೂರ್ಣತಾವಾದಿ (kn) (paripūrṇatāvādi), ಪರಿ ಪೂರ್ಣತಾಕಾಂಕ್ಷಿ (kn) (pari pūrṇatākāṅkṣi), ಪರಿಪೂರ್ಣತಾನ್ವೇಷಕ (kn) (paripūrṇatānvēṣaka)
- Korean: 완벽주의자(完璧主義者) (wanbyeokjuuija)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: (please verify) tekûzkar (ku)
- Malayalam: പൂർണ്ണതാവാദി (pūṟṇṇatāvādi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: perfeksjonist (no) m
- Nynorsk: perfeksjonist m
- Polish: perfekcjonista (pl) m, perfekcjonistka f
- Portuguese: perfeccionista m or f
- Romanian: perfecționist (ro) m, perfecționistă (ro) f
- Russian: перфекциони́ст (ru) m (perfekcioníst), перфекциони́стка f (perfekcionístka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: перфекцио̀нист m, перфекцио̀нистица f
- Roman: perfekciònist (sh) m, perfekciònistica (sh) f
- Slovak: perfekcionista m, perfekcionistka f
- Spanish: perfeccionista (es) m or f
- Swedish: perfektionist (sv) c
- Turkish: mükemmeliyetçi (tr)
- Ukrainian: перфекціоні́ст m (perfekcioníst), перфекціоні́стка f (perfekcionístka)
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Adjective
perfectionist (comparative more perfectionist, superlative most perfectionist)
- Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
perfectionistic parents
- (philosophy) Inclined or related to perfectionism.
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
By surface analysis, French perfection + -ist.
Pronunciation
Noun
perfectionist m (plural perfectionisten, diminutive perfectionistje n, feminine perfectioniste)
- perfectionist
Derived terms