conscientious
cons·cien·tious
adjective
1.
characterized by extreme care and great effort
- “conscientious application to the work at hand”
- “painstaking research”
- “scrupulous attention to details”
2.
guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong
- “a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice”
Origin
From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin cōnscientiōsus. Its English equivalent could possibly be analyzed as conscient + -ous. See more at conscience.
Phrases
- conscientious objection
- conscientious objector
Related words
WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.