meticulously
Americanadverb
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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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Its research vessels are meticulously mapping the oceans, from the Mariana Trench to the Arctic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
In Schoenbrun’s debut novel, “Public Access Afterworld,” the filmmaker takes a sizable risk, stripping away the meticulously crafted onscreen worlds to assert the dexterity of their prose.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
Pierson meticulously tracks her job-search process with a spreadsheet system she designed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
The couple used the time to make memories with their children, James and Amy, and John meticulously organised their paperwork.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
In 1924, Hermann Werner Siemens, the German eugenicist and Nazi sympathizer, proposed a twin study that advanced Galton’s proposal by meticulously separating identical twins from fraternal twins.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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