meticulous
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8.6
- adjective
- /məˈtɪkjələs/
:
minucioso
- The Adventuress Club keeps meticulous records of all our members' achievements.
- meticulous attention
- meticulous detail
- meticulous care
That is my only job, and I am meticulous and rigorous in pursuing that goal.
- That is my only job, and I am meticulous and rigorous in pursuing that goal.
- And then he goes and we and we have this very, very, very meticulous process, right?
- I'm very slow, I'm very patient, I'm meticulous.
- But but Larry, our director again, was so meticulous about music and I think it's just it's just great.
- And his team was just this incredible team of fact checkers, and they were so meticulous.
- Again, OK, so in in lecture, Professor Strang derived in meticulous detail the formula for the projection matrix.
- She showed the world that abuse claims require careful, meticulous scrutiny because women sometimes do lie.
Examples
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Yeah, on today's episode, we will be paying meticulous attention to details.
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Objectives here need to be selected with meticulous care to include quality knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
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So you have to be really meticulous and look, we feel we're the only ones.
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I think this guy's a real meticulous director.
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You were so meticulous about so many things.
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Before the Times would publish the story, they went through a meticulous fact checking process.
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Preparations for winter in the NHS have been more extensive and meticulous than ever before.
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In other words, I need handlers and people who are meticulous and organized.
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He was a meticulous coach, every detail, no stone was left unturned.
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The architect was meticulous in her designs, ensuring every detail was perfect.
Synonyms
901
3.2
Completely correct in every small detail
353
3.7
Having many small parts or facts that you can see
286
3.6
Exactly correct and clear about small details
205
4.6
Shows careful attention to every detail and leaves nothing out
106
4.4
Careful about small details and hard to please
13
6.1
Being very careful and using a lot of effort
8
8.0
Very careful about small details and being clean, often hard to please
4
9.8
Being very picky about small details
3
7.2
Careful to do things correctly and notice small details
2
7.7
Done completely and carefully, leaving nothing out
1
8.9
Being very careful about small details and correct behaviour
Very careful about small details
Being very careful about small details in a way that annoys others
Too worried about small details and hard to please
Antonyms
How Careful
Surface Forms
Morphology
meticulous = meticul + ous
Although the suffix '-ous' is productive, the root 'meticul' is not a recognizable English base and the modern sense ('very careful') has shifted away from the original Latin sense, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from its parts.
Etymology
Meticulous comes from an old Latin word metus, which means 'fear'. Imagine someone who is afraid of making mistakes and so checks every small detail carefully; that's why meticulous now means very careful and exact.