Usually means: Strives for flawless standards obsessively.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word perfectionists:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. perfectionists: Merriam-Webster
  2. perfectionists: Collins English Dictionary
  3. perfectionists: Vocabulary.com
  4. Perfectionists, perfectionists: Wordnik
  5. perfectionists: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. perfectionists: Wiktionary
  7. perfectionists: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Perfectionists, The Perfectionists (book), The Perfectionists (book series), The Perfectionists: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Perfectionists: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Perfectionists: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Perfectionists: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. perfectionists: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Perfectionists: Medical dictionary

(Note: See perfectionist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (perfectionist)

noun:  Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
noun:  (philosophy, now rare) Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
noun:  (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.
adjective:  Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
adjective:  (philosophy) Inclined or related to perfectionism.
▸ Also see perfectionist


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