meticulously
Americanadverb
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Origin of meticulously
Explanation
If you clean your house meticulously, you take plenty of time and scour every single nook and cranny, maybe even behind the oven and under the doormat. Meticulous means extremely careful and thorough, so if you do something meticulously, you are painstaking about doing it perfectly. Someone who would never leave her house with an un-ironed t-shirt or a thread hanging loose is someone who dresses meticulously. If your town historian documents every event, from births to remodeled living rooms, then she does her job meticulously, maybe a little too meticulously.
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Example Sentences
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Meticulously arranged pantries appeal to middle-class sensibilities: Maybe you can't have a designer kitchen, but you can beautify your bulk food storage.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2023
Meticulously researched and delivered in a taut, almost staccato style, “Funny Business” glides along the surface of Buchwald’s remarkable life, venturing wide but not especially deep.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022
The first step: Meticulously go over what the school allows and provides.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2022
Meticulously record all sensory information about your subject and their setting, writing in-depth notes about what you see, smell, hear, feel, and taste.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Meticulously I had changed the oil and attended to the greasing.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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