punctilious
Adjective Satellite
- marked by precise accordance with details
- "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"
Adj
- Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
- Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
Examples
- With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
Origin / Etymology
From punctilio (“fine point in exactness of conduct”) + -ous.
Synonyms
meticulous, accurate, careful, comprehensive, conscientious, exhaustive, fastidious, finicky, groundly, in-depth, intensive, letter-perfect, mindful, minute, nitpicky, painstaking, particular, polished, precise, punctilious, rigorous, root and branch, scrupulous, scrutinous, sedulous, strict, thorough, tight
Scrabble Score: 15
punctilious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpunctilious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
punctilious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary