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meticulous

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Adjective
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me=tic=u=lous

CIDE DICTIONARY

meticulousa. [L. meticulosus, fr. metus fear: cf. F. méticuleux.].
  •  Timid; fearful.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Taking great care to get every detail correct; working thoroughly and with precision; as, meticulous workmanship.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

meticulous, adj.
1 giving great or excessive attention to details.
2 very careful and precise.

Derivative
meticulously adv. meticulousness n.
Etymology
L meticulosus f. metus fear

THESAURUS

meticulous

OK, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, accurate, active, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, all right, assiduous, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, aware, careful, cautious, censorious, choicy, choosy, close, compliant, concentrated, conforming, conscientious, conscionable, conscious, constant, correct, critical, dead right, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, diligent, discriminating, discriminative, dour, duteous, dutiful, earnest, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, flawless, full, fussy, grim, harsh, heedful, intense, intent, intentive, just, just right, letter-perfect, loyal, methodical, microscopic, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, niggling, observant, observing, okay, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, orderly, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, perfect, perfectionist, perfectionistic, pernickety, picayune, picky, practicing, precious, precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, priggish, proper, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic, refined, regardful, religious, right, rigid, rigorous, rugged, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, severe, special, specific, stern, straight, straight-up-and-down, strict, stringent, subtle, tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, true, unsparing, watchful

ROGET THESAURUS

meticulous

Fastidiousness

N fastidiousness, nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise, epicurism, omnia suspendens naso, epicure, gourmet, prudery, fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned, squeasy, queasy, hard to please, difficult to please, querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous, censorious, hypercritical, overcritical, noli me tangere.


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