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Meticulous

//mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.

    "meticulous search"

  2. 2
    Timid, fearful, overly cautious. archaic
Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by extreme care in treatment of details wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by precise accordance with details wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux.

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