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meticulous

me·ti·cu·lous

US/mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/ uncommon archaic

adjective

1.

marked by precise accordance with details

  • “was worryingly meticulous about trivial details”
  • “punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette”
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2.

marked by extreme care in treatment of details

  • “a meticulous craftsman”
  • “almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities”
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Origin

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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