perfectionist

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: per=fec=tion=ist

CIDE DICTIONARY

perfectionist, n. 

 One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.  South.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

perfectionist

Babbitt, Leibnizian, Leibnizian optimist, Middle American, Philistine, Pollyanna, anal character, aspirant, aspirer, bourgeois, bright, burgher, captious critic, censorious, cheerful, chiliast, chiliastic, choicy, choosy, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conscientious, conventionalist, couleur de rose, critical, demanding, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formalist, fuss-budget, fusspot, fussy, hopeful, hoper, irrepressible optimist, methodologist, meticulous, middle-class type, millenarian, millennialist, millennialistic, millennian, model child, nit-picking, nitpicker, obsessive, optimist, optimistic, organization man, parrot, particular, pedant, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionistic, philosophical optimist, picky, plastic person, precise, precisian, precisianist, precisianistic, precisionist, priggish, prudish, punctilious, purist, puristic, puritanic, ray of sunshine, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, sheep, square, stickler, strict, sunny, teenybopper, trimmer, upbeat, utopian, yes-man