Meticulous

3 definitions found

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

  Meticulous \Me*tic"u*lous\, a. [L. meticulosus, fr. metus fear:
     cf. F. m['e]ticuleux.]
     Timid; fearful. [archaic]
     [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Taking great care to get every detail correct; working


        thoroughly and with precision; as, meticulous workmanship.
        [PJC] -- {Me*tic"u*lous*ly}, adv.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  meticulous
       adj 1: marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly
              meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his
              attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: {punctilious}]
       2: marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a
          meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in
          his business formalities" [syn: {picky}]

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

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "meticulous":
     OK, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, accurate, active, advertent,
     agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, all right, assiduous, astringent,
     attentive, austere, authoritarian, aware, careful, cautious,
     censorious, choicy, choosy, close, compliant, concentrated,
     conforming, conscientious, conscionable, conscious, constant,
     correct, critical, dead right, delicate, demanding, detailed,
     devoted, devout, diligent, discriminating, discriminative, dour,
     duteous, dutiful, earnest, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite,
     faithful, fastidious, faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky,
     flawless, full, fussy, grim, harsh, heedful, intense, intent,
     intentive, just, just right, letter-perfect, loyal, methodical,
     microscopic, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, niggling, observant,
     observing, okay, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed,
     openmouthed, orderly, overconscientious, overscrupulous,
     painstaking, particular, perfect, perfectionist, perfectionistic,
     pernickety, picayune, picky, practicing, precious, precise,
     precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, priggish,
     proper, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic,
     refined, regardful, religious, right, rigid, rigorous, rugged,
     scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, severe, special,
     specific, stern, straight, straight-up-and-down, strict, stringent,
     subtle, tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, true, unsparing,
     watchful