meticulous
Adjective Satellite
- marked by precise accordance with details
- "meticulous research"
- marked by extreme care in treatment of details
- "a meticulous craftsman"
- "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"
Adj
- Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
- Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
Examples
- meticulous investigation
- meticulous knowledge
- meticulous report
- meticulous search
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
punctilious, accurate, alert, attentive, canny, careful, cautelous, cautious, chary, circumspect, comprehensive, conscientious, conservative, deliberate, discreet, exhaustive, fastidious, groundly, guarded, heedful, heedy, hesitant, in-depth, intensive, letter-perfect, meticulous, mindful, minute, painstaking, particular, polished, precise, prudent, reckful, rigorous, root and branch, safe, scrupulous, scrutinous, sedulous, sensible, shy, slow, strict, tentative, thorough, tight, timid, timorous, wary, well-advised
Antonyms
aggressive, automatic, carefree, careless, cursory, haphazard, meticulous, perfunctory, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, superficial, surface-level, thoughtless, token, unthinking
Scrabble Score: 14
meticulous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmeticulous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
meticulous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary