meticulously

American  

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

adverb

1. 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.

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Other Word Forms

• unmeticulously adverb

Etymology

Origin of meticulously

meticulous ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

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

In the weeks before the College Football Playoff, the country’s top teams meticulously scripted their most important plays for the game’s most crucial situations.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• anxiously
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• rigorously
• scrupulously
• thoroughly
• thoughtfully
• warily