1.
[syn: meticulous, punctilious]
2. marked by extreme care in treatment of details;
- Example: "a meticulous craftsman"
- Example: "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Meticulous \Me*tic"u*lous\, a. [L. meticulosus, fr. metus fear:
cf. F. m['e]ticuleux.]
Timid; fearful. [archaic]
[1913 Webster]
2. Taking great care to get every detail correct; working
thoroughly and with precision; as, meticulous workmanship.
[PJC] -- Me*tic"u*lous*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
meticulous
adj 1: marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous
research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of
etiquette" [syn: meticulous, punctilious]
2: marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous
craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business
formalities"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "meticulous":
OK, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, accurate, active, advertent,
agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, all right, assiduous, astringent,
attentive, austere, authoritarian, aware, careful, cautious,
censorious, choicy, choosy, close, compliant, concentrated,
conforming, conscientious, conscionable, conscious, constant,
correct, critical, dead right, delicate, demanding, detailed,
devoted, devout, diligent, discriminating, discriminative, dour,
duteous, dutiful, earnest, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite,
faithful, fastidious, faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky,
flawless, full, fussy, grim, harsh, heedful, intense, intent,
intentive, just, just right, letter-perfect, loyal, methodical,
microscopic, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, niggling, observant,
observing, okay, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed,
openmouthed, orderly, overconscientious, overscrupulous,
painstaking, particular, perfect, perfectionist, perfectionistic,
pernickety, picayune, picky, practicing, precious, precise,
precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, priggish,
proper, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic,
refined, regardful, religious, right, rigid, rigorous, rugged,
scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, severe, special,
specific, stern, straight, straight-up-and-down, strict, stringent,
subtle, tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, true, unsparing,
watchful