A perfectionist is:
- a person who wants everything to be perfect and demands the highest standards possible. (Cambridge Dict.)
What noun could be used to refer to the opposite of the above definition? Someone who doesn't care about doing things the proper way , who tends to accept low standard of executions.
The thesaurus has no suggestion for an antonym.
- Jim is a perfectionist in everything he does while his brother, on the contrary, is just a (the opposite).
I'm looking for a term that describes this: a "non-perfectionist" would usually perform his job/task with little interest and little care. He is not irresponsible but he is going to devote as little as he can to do it, he just doesn't feel the need, unlike a perfectionist, to do the best he can. I want a term that a term would be used mainly referring to poor execution of a job/task rather than house/personal order and cleanliness.
Best Answer
What about something like "layabout":
This term may lack the explicit concept inherent in perfectionism (the need for everything to be perfect) but I would think that a person who "avoids work" is quite the opposite of someone who goes to extra effort to make something perfect.