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Punctilious

//pʌŋkˈtɪli.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.

    "With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable."

  2. 2
    Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.

    "Of course, humans do not treat time in such a punctilious fashion."

Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by precise accordance with details wordnet

Etymology

From punctilio (“fine point in exactness of conduct”) + -ous.

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