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meticulousadjective taking, showing, or involving great care and effortdid a meticulous job of restoring the painting careful, conscientious, fussy, loving, painstaking, scrupulous assiduous, diligent, indefatigable, persevering, sedulousexhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoingalert, attentive, observant, vigilant, watchfulaccurate, exact, precise, strictcritical, demanding, discriminating, exacting, fastidious, finicky, particularcautious, chary, circumspect, gingerly, guarded, heedful, mindful, warydeliberate, plodding, slowstudied, thoughtfulall-out, determined, dogged, intensive, patient, tenacious, tireless, zealous careless cursory, halfheartedheedless, inattentive, incautious, mindless, regardless, unguarded, unsafe, unwarylax, neglectful, negligent, slipshod, sloppy, slovenlyimpreciseinaccurate, uncritical, undemanding, undiscriminatingbold, impetuous, rash, recklessapathetic, indifferent, lackadaisical, lazy, lazyish careful, meticulous, scrupulous, punctilious mean showing close attention to detail.careful implies attentiveness and cautiousness in avoiding mistakes.a careful worker meticulous may imply either commendable extreme carefulness or a hampering finicky caution over small points.meticulous scholarship scrupulous applies to what is proper or fitting or ethical.scrupulous honesty punctilious implies minute, even excessive attention to fine points.punctilious observance of ritual in 1827 |