perfectionist

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.

  2. 2

    Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.

  3. 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.

adjective

  1. 1

    Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.

    “perfectionistic parents”
  2. 2

    Inclined or related to perfectionism.

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