conscientious

English

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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.

Derived terms

• conscientiously
• conscientiousness
• conscientious objector

Related terms

• conscience

Translations

thorough, careful, or vigilant

Bulgarian: добросъвестен (bg) (dobrosǎvesten) Czech: svědomitý (cs) 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.