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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It was then up to a team of journalists in the Der Spiegel headquarters in Hamburg to meticulously go through it all, producing some of the most explosive articles the football world has ever seen.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
He began meticulously collecting it in 2022 as a territorial-defense unit commander.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The film meticulously makes one argument over and over: Everyone is an exploitative creep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
“An authentic 1852 Italianate townhouse, meticulously restored into a passive-house sanctuary on one of the West Village’s most coveted blocks,” the latest listing states.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Behind him, meticulously stitched in shades of brown, was Frolic, his tail high.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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