conscientious

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌkɒnʃiˈɛnʃəs/
• (US) IPA: /ˌkɑnʃiˈɛnʃəs/

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Adjective

conscientious (comparative more conscientious, superlative most conscientious)

1. Thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well.

   He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.

Antonyms

• capricious
• impulsive

Derived terms

• conscientiously
• conscientiousness
• conscientious objector

Related terms

• conscience

Translations

thorough, careful, or vigilant

• Bulgarian: добросъвестен (bg) (dobrosǎvesten) 
• Czech: svědomitý (cs)
• Danish: samvittighedsfuld (da), pligtopfyldende (da)
• Finnish: tunnollinen (fi), tunnontarkka (fi)
• French: consciencieux (fr)
• Icelandic: samviskusamur (is)
• Latvian: apzinīgi (lv)
• Polish: skrupulatny (pl) m, sumienny (pl) m

• Russian: добросовестный (ru) (dobrosóv'estnyj) , сознательный (ru) (soznát'el'nyj) , честный (ru) (čéstnyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Ekavian) са́вестан (sh), (Ijekavian) са́вјестан (sh)

  Roman: (Ekavian) sávestan (sh), (Ijekavian) sávjestan (sh)

• Swedish: samvetsgrann (sv)

External links

• conscientious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• conscientious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “vigilance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.