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 has broken down meticulously constructed networks of trust and generally slowed the response to the virus.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
Like Bukele, de la Espriella sports a meticulously groomed beard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
This isn't necessarily a story of a single all-conquering season, but rather the culmination of a meticulously plotted six-year project.
From BBC • May 19, 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
The shutters were white with pineapple cutouts in the center, and the front yard was meticulously manicured.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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