meticulous
- taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- finicky; fussy: meticulous adherence to technicalities.
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precise, cautious, scrupulous, accurate, fastidious, thorough, strict, painstaking, conscientious, exact, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking, particular, persnickety, picky, punctilious, punctual, conscionableExamples from the Web for meticulous
Contemporary Examples of meticulous
Rick suggests a Woodbury-esque sneak attack on the hospital and lays out a meticulous strategy relying heavily on timing and luck.
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In a line of business built on meticulous order, the inner workings of Spinal Solutions were a study in disorder.
Without overshadowing his talented counterparts, Cedar commands the stage with a meticulous mix of stoicism and candor.
It took a special, meticulous kind of person to accomplish the undertaking, someone with brains, patience, and nerves of steel.
He admitted responsibility without hesitation, and in meticulous, grisly detail.
Historical Examples of meticulous
At least in his early works, he was meticulous in his research.
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He was a thin and meticulous man, and he operated his ship with mechanical perfection.
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It is impossible to give you an idea of such a meticulous neatness.
FalkJoseph Conrad
Casey nervously undid a shoelace, retieing it with meticulous care.
TerryCharles Goff Thomson
They spare him the trouble of meticulous investigation of unimportant facts.
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meticulous
- very precise about details, even trivial ones; painstaking
Word Origin for meticulous
Word Origin and History for meticulous
1530s, "fearful, timid," from Latin meticulosus "fearful, timid," literally "full of fear," from metus "fear, dread, apprehension, anxiety," of unknown origin. Sense of "fussy about details" is first recorded in English 1827, from French méticuleux "timorously fussy." Related: Meticulosity.