Dictionary Definition
punctilious adj : marked by precise accordance
with details; "was worryingly meticulous about trivial details";
"punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: meticulous]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to
codes or conventions
- With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
- precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky
Derived terms
Translations
- Spanish: puntilloso
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accurate, active, attentive, careful, censorious, choicy, choosy, close, compliant, conforming, conscientious, conscionable, constant, conventional, correct, critical, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, discriminating, discriminative, duteous, dutiful, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, formal, fussy, heedful, loyal, methodical, meticulous, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, observant, orderly, overconscientious,
overscrupulous,
painstaking,
particular, perfectionistic,
picky, practicing, precious, precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, priggish, prudish, punctual, puristic, puritanic, refined, regardful, religious, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, strict, subtle, tender-conscienced,
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