Synonyms for perfectionist
per·fec·tion·ist

Princeton's WordNet

1. perfectionistnoun

   a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards

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1. • Compulsive

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1. Andrew Liakos:

   I put a lot of work into it, along the years I’ve learned all the different brushes in Photoshop. I’m a perfectionist and these two men, they deserve everything I had to give.

2. Jacqueline Bisset:

   I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

3. The Tony winning actress:

   There are about 3 million notes in a two-and-a-half-hour musical; being a perfectionist, it took me a long time to realize that if I'm hitting 75 percent of them, I'm succeeding, performing isn't only about the acrobatics and the high notes: It's staying in the moment, connecting with the audience in an authentic way, and making yourself real to them through the music.

4. Wendy Suzuki:

   You sabotage yourself and your resilience with a negative perfectionist' you failed' lens, what you want to do for your resilience is build yourself up and be your own best friend. If all of us spent more time focused on what we are doing well, that could help alleviate anxiety levels from a different point of view.

5. Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book):

   It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.