Though Alfred is scrupulous in fulfilling his duties at work, he is less conscientious about his obligations at home.
Source: tatoeba (1985)
Conscientious
//ˌkɑnʃiˈɛnʃəs//
Synonyms for "conscientious" (112 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (56)
mindfulminutemoralnarrowniceobedientobservantoverconscientiousoverscrupulouspainfulparticularperfectionistperfectionisticpickypoliticpracticingpreciseprecisianisticprecisionisticpriggish
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Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(2 words)
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Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
9 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- εὐσυνείδητος adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Bulgarian
3 entries- добросъвестен adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- съвестен adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- съзнателен adj (influenced by conscience)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 投入的 adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- 认真的 adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Czech
1 entries- svědomitý adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Danish
2 entries- pligtopfyldende adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- samvittighedsfuld adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Dutch
4 entries- consciëntieus adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- consciëntieus adj (influenced by conscience)
- gewetensvol adj (influenced by conscience)
- nauwgezet adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Esperanto
1 entries- konscienca adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Finnish
2 entries- tunnollinen adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- tunnontarkka adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
French
1 entries- consciencieux adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
German
4 entries- Gewissens adj (influenced by conscience)
- auf dem Gewissen beruhend adj (influenced by conscience)
- dem Gewissen verpflichtet adj (influenced by conscience)
- gewissenhaft adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Greek
1 entries- ευσυνείδητος adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Hungarian
1 entries- lelkiismeretes adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Icelandic
1 entries- samviskusamur adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Italian
1 entries- coscienzioso adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Latin
1 entries- pius adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Latvian
1 entries- apzinīgi adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Māori
1 entries- urupū adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- samvittighetsfull adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- samvittighetsfull adj (influenced by conscience)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- samvitsfull adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- samvitsfull adj (influenced by conscience)
Persian
2 entries- باوجدان adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- وظیفهشناس adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Polish
2 entries- skrupulatny adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- sumienny adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Portuguese
1 entries- consciencioso adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Romanian
1 entries- conștiincios adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Russian
3 entries- добросо́вестный adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- созна́тельный adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- че́стный adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sávestan adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- sávjestan adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- са́вестан adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- са́вјестан adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Sicilian
1 entries- cuscinziusu adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Spanish
1 entries- concienzudo adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
Swedish
3 entries- plikttrogen adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- samvetsgrann adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- samvetsöm adj (influenced by conscience)
Ukrainian
4 entries- добросо́вісний adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- добросо́вісний adj (influenced by conscience)
- сумлі́нний adj (thorough, careful, or vigilant)
- сумлі́нний adj (influenced by conscience)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
At the end, the conscientious girl gave up with her English homework, and started to revise her list of Ainu words.
Source: tatoeba (589600)
We're conscientious.
Source: tatoeba (2202676)
You're conscientious.
Source: tatoeba (2202677)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
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