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Synonyms

meticulously

American

[muh-tik-yuh-luhs-lee] / məˈtɪk yə ləs li /

adverb

in a way that shows extreme care about minute details; in a precise and thorough way, sometimes to an excessive degree.

He'd had collections of various kinds as a kid, each of them meticulously sorted and, yes, even inventoried.

Other Word Forms

unmeticulously adverb

Etymology

Origin of meticulously

meticulous ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

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“My Soul / Half Pint,” which features Dry Cleaning fan Jeff Tweedy of Wilco on clanging guitar, is about a woman who meticulously arranges her house but finds cleaning “demeaning.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Some nights, you come home late on a snowy evening and the last thing you want to do is make whatever dinner you had meticulously planned.

From Salon

In Wisbech, Mia, who's 51, has been meticulously sewing her own faithful replica for the last nine and a half years.

From BBC

Her outfits were meticulously designed - both with practicality in mind, and often with subliminal messages of soft power, diplomacy and stability.

From BBC

Safdie pored over hours of match footage from the 1940s to the 1970s, meticulously breaking down every point that caught his attention.

From Barron's

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