microscopic

Examples

• All

• The painter applied microscopic details to the canvas, making the landscape come alive.

• Oh, it won't be easy finding him, scouring the countryside for microscopic clues, following trails that are long-since cold, sensing him always nearby, yet somehow maddeningly beyond our grasp.

  The Stupids (1996)

• Now, before it used to be the microscopic features that would determine the relationships between species.

• I'll need to get a microscopic look at it.

  Lake Placid (1999)

• At lunch, she read every microscopic word on the label.

  Fiction book (2002)

• But after microscopic examination,.. I have found that it has one small weakness.

  Cars 2 (2011)

• The body was no different; it was a machine to be analyzed in microscopic detail.

  Academic text (2001)

• And then the amazing detail, the microscopic detail of a strand of DNA that forms the basic structure of a human being.

  The Genesis Code (2010)

• Knowledge of the microscopic components does not imply understanding of the behavior of the macroscopic whole.

  Academic text (2004)

• The adverse publicity ignited microscopic scrutiny of the facility and its operating permits by the local regulatory agencies.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

M

micro-level

vsmicroscopic

1 5.9

Relating to the smallest parts of something, often individual people

is about extreme precision in small details rather than scale focus

M

microanalytical

vsmicroscopic

• Formal

8.9

Showing very careful study of very small details

is precise in detail but not limited to analytic processes

M

microsurgical

vsmicroscopic

• Formal

7.1

Very careful and exact about small details

is about precise attention to small detail rather than only actions

F

finical

vsmicroscopic

9.9

Careful about small details and hard to please

is precise and detailed in a careful way rather than merely fussy

Compounds

M

microscopic detail

1 6.9

A very small part that you can only see with a microscope

E

electron microscopic

• Specialized

6.5

Visible only with a very powerful microscope, not with light

M

microscopic anatomy

• Specialized

5.9

Study of the tiny parts inside tissues and organs using a microscope

M

microscopic field

• Specialized

5.1

The area you see through a microscope at one magnification

M

microscopic lens

• Specialized

4.4

A very small glass piece that makes tiny things look bigger in a microscope

How Detailed

microscopic

6 6.4

meticulous

58 8.6

precise

286 3.6

thorough

205 4.6

detailed

353 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology