I'm a perfectionist.
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Perfectionist
//pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst//
Synonyms for "perfectionist" (94 found)
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Related words (47)
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67 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- كَمَالِيّ adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- mükəmməliyyətçi noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Belarusian
2 entries- перфекцыяні́ст noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- перфекцыяні́стка noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Catalan
2 entries- perfeccionista adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfeccionista noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 完美主義者 /完美主义者 noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Czech
3 entries- perfekcionistický adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfekcionista noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- perfekcionistka noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Danish
2 entries- perfektionistisk adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfektionist noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Dutch
3 entries- perfectionistisch adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfectionist noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- perfectioniste noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Estonian
2 entries- perfektsionist noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- täiuslikkuseihaleja noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Finnish
2 entries- perfektionistinen adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfektionisti noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
French
2 entries- perfectionniste adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfectionniste noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
German
3 entries- perfektionistisch adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- Perfektionist noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- Perfektionistin noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Greek
2 entries- τελειοθήρας noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- τελειομανής noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Hungarian
2 entries- maximalista adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- maximalista noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Icelandic
1 entries- fullkomnunarsinni noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Italian
3 entries- perfezionista adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfezionistico adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfezionista noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Japanese
2 entries- 完全主義者 noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- 完璧主義者 noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Kannada
3 entries- ಪರಿ ಪೂರ್ಣತಾಕಾಂಕ್ಷಿ noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- ಪರಿಪೂರ್ಣತಾನ್ವೇಷಕ noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- ಪರಿಪೂರ್ಣತಾವಾದಿ noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Korean
1 entries- 완벽주의자 noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Malayalam
1 entries- പൂർണ്ണതാവാദി noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- perfeksjonist noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- perfeksjonist noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Polish
3 entries- perfekcjonistyczny adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfekcjonista noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- perfekcjonistka noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Portuguese
2 entries- perfeccionista adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfeccionista noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Romanian
3 entries- perfecționist adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfecționist noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- perfecționistă noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Russian
3 entries- перфекциони́стский adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- перфекциони́ст noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- перфекциони́стка noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- perfekcionìstičkī adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- перфекционѝстичкӣ adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfekciònist noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- perfekciònistica noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Slovak
2 entries- perfekcionista noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- perfekcionistka noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Spanish
2 entries- perfeccionista adj (inclined or related to perfectionism)
- perfeccionista noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Swedish
1 entries- perfektionist noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Tagalog
1 entries- perpeksiyonista noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Turkish
1 entries- mükemmeliyetçi noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Ukrainian
2 entries- перфекціоні́ст noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
- перфекціоні́стка noun (person who does not settle for anything that is not perfect)
Sample sentences
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Tom is a perfectionist.
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He is a perfectionist.
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I actually voted that I'm not a perfectionist, though. I have some of the signs on the list to a high degree but I'm not entirely motivated by perfection.
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