Dictionary Definition
meticulous adj
1 marked by precise accordance with details; "was
worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his
attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: punctilious]
2 marked by extreme care in treatment of details;
"a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his
business formalities" [syn: picky]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- with extreme care, precision, and attention to detail. It may be used in praise, synonymous with painstaking; or pejoratively, for absorption to neglect of constraints in time and resources.
Derived terms
Synonyms
Translations
with care, precision and attention
- Finnish: huolellinen
- French: méticuleux, soigneux
- German: akribisch
- Japanese: 細部まで行き届いた（さいぶまでいきとどいた, saibu made ikitodoita）
- Portuguese: meticuloso, meticulosa
- Swedish: omsorgsfull
Extensive Definition
wi meticulous
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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