meticulously
Americanadverb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
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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I make a lot of phone calls for stories, and meticulously transcribing those interviews has been the bane of my existence since I was in high school.
From Slate • May 24, 2026
A meticulously detailed log with windows, for instance, or a car that seems to balance natural, mountainous wonders on its back.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Next to the museum, a team of experts continues to work meticulously on his vast archives, preserving the legacy of Turkey's photography master.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
"Astronauts are screened very meticulously before going to space but with commercial flights, these people are paying to go so the medical screening will likely be much less," she says.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Wyche had been working on that: she’d written a meticulously detailed three-page, single-spaced letter to William Brody, then president of Johns Hopkins.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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