Scrupulous

3 definitions found

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

  Scrupulous \Scru"pu*lous\, a. [L. scrupulosus: cf. F.
     scrupuleux.]
     1. Full of scruples; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful;
        hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of
        offending or of doing wrong.
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              Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak
              brethren which were scrupulous.       --Hooker.
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     2. Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence
        from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.
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     3. Given to making objections; captious. [Obs.]
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              Equality of two domestic powers
              Breed scrupulous faction.             --Shak.
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     4. Liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice. [Obs.]
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              The justice of that cause ought to be evident; not
              obscure, not scrupulous.              --Bacon.
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     Syn: Cautious; careful; conscientious; hesitating.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Scru"pu*lous*ly}, adv. --
          {Scru"pu*lous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scrupulous
       adj 1: having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong;
              principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles
              that were deceptive in appearance" [ant: {unscrupulous}]
       2: characterized by extreme care and great effort;
          "conscientious application to the work at hand";
          "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"
          [syn: {conscientious}, {painstaking}]

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

  155 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrupulous":
     Pyrrhonic, accurate, active, agnostic, analyze, attentive, bashful,
     boggling, canvass, careful, case, cautious, censorious, check over,
     check up, choicy, choosy, close, comb, compliant, con, conforming,
     conscientious, conscionable, consider, constant, contemplate,
     correct, critical, deferential, delicate, demanding, demurring,
     detailed, devoted, devout, diffident, dig into, discriminating,
     discriminative, dissect, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious,
     duteous, dutiful, ethical, exact, exacting, examine, exigent,
     exquisite, eye, eyeball, fair-minded, faithful, faltering,
     fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, from Missouri,
     fussy, heedful, hesitant, hesitating, high-minded, honest,
     honorable, in doubt, inspect, just, leery, look over, loyal,
     methodical, meticulous, mindful, minute, mistrustful, mistrusting,
     modest, moral, narrow, neat, nice, obedient, observant, orderly,
     overconscientious, overlook, overscrupulous, painstaking,
     particular, penetrate, perfectionistic, perlustrate, peruse, picky,
     pierce, pore over, practicing, precious, precise, precisian,
     precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, priggish, principled,
     probe, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic,
     qualmish, questioning, refined, regardful, religious, respectful,
     right, righteous, rigid, rigorous, scan, scrutinize, scrutinizing,
     selective, sensitive, severe, shrinking, shy, skeptical, squeamish,
     stickling, strict, study, subtle, survey, suspecting, suspicious,
     tender-conscienced, true, uncertain, untrusting, upstanding, vet,
     view, wary, watch, weigh