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Discover LudwigThe word 'perfectionist' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone or something that strives for unobtainable or excessive perfection, often at the expense of regular progress. For example: She was such a perfectionist that she often got overwhelmed with the amount of work she had to do.
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perfectionist
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One who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
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He was a perfectionist: to sculpt this, the story goes, he killed one of his students.
A daughter of immigrants from Poland, Kwolek headed into science after mother advised she would be too much of a perfectionist for fashion design.
Eight months later, the perfectionist in me is dead and I don't miss her.
But following her mother's advice that she was too much of a perfectionist to go into fashion, Kwolek decided to become a doctor.
I was pretty much a perfectionist back then.
"Even for the 'bad' perfectionist, Oxbridge could still be a great environment.
His perfectionist personality and fractious relationship with his new partner create the sort of confrontational drama you don't find on Strictly.
I rate local heroes Flour + Water for their perfectionist in-house butchery and salume-making.
I think Oxford and Cambridge are probably happy to admit that they pre-select people at high risk of developing mental health difficulties, because they're taking high-achieving perfectionist young people, who come to be the best".
"He had massively high standards; he was a perfectionist.
Source: Schirn Kunstalle Frankfurt/ Alexander EnglertAMERICA'S most famous living artist, Jeff Koons, is an ambitious perfectionist.
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