Conscientious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conscientious \Con`sci*en"tious\, a. [Cf. F. consciencieux, LL.
     conscientiosus.]
     1. 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.
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              The advice of wise and conscientious men.
                                                    --Prescott.
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     2. Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the
        dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.
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              A holy and conscientious course.      --Abp.
                                                    Tillotson.
  
     Syn: Scrupulous; exact; faithful; just; upright.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conscientious
       adj 1: characterized by extreme care and great effort;
              "conscientious application to the work at hand";
              "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to
              details" [syn: {painstaking}, {scrupulous}]
       2: guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right
          and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about
          injustice" [ant: {unconscientious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "conscientious":
     accurate, active, attentive, careful, cautious, censorious, choicy,
     choosy, circumspect, close, compliant, conforming, conscionable,
     constant, correct, critical, deferential, delicate, demanding,
     detailed, devoted, devout, diligent, discreet, discriminating,
     discriminative, duteous, dutiful, ethical, exact, exacting,
     exigent, exquisite, fair, faithful, fastidious, fine, finical,
     finicking, finicky, fussy, heedful, high-minded, honest, honorable,
     incorruptible, just, loyal, meticulous, mindful, minute, moral,
     narrow, nice, obedient, observant, overconscientious,
     overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, perfectionistic, picky,
     politic, practicing, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic,
     priggish, principled, prudent, prudish, punctilious, punctual,
     puristic, puritanic, refined, regardful, religious, respectful,
     responsible, right, right-minded, righteous, rigid, rigorous,
     scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, serious, strict,
     subtle, tender-conscienced, thorough, true, upright, upstanding