meticulous
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin meticulosus (“‘full of fear’”) < metus (“‘fear’”)
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meticulous (comparative more meticulous, superlative most meticulous)
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- Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
- 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 28 July 1943:
- The meticulous care with which the operation in Sicily was planned has paid dividends. Our casualties in men, in ships and materiel have been low—in fact, far below our estimate.
- 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 28 July 1943:
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- careful, precise, painstaking, rigorous, scrupulous
- See also Wikisaurus:meticulous
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characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details
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[edit] External links
- meticulous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- meticulous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911