conscientious
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French conscientieux
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Adjective[edit]
conscientious (comparative more conscientious, superlative most conscientious)
- Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance.
- He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.
- Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).
- The advice of wise and conscientious women.
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Translations[edit]
thorough, careful, or vigilant
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Further reading[edit]
- 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.