meticulous

Meanings

• adjective

  Showing intense care and attention to detail; very thorough and painstaking.

• adjective

  Marked by minute care and accuracy in execution or production.

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Pronunciation

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Antonyms

aggressive , carefree , careless , slapdash , sloppy

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Synonyms

careful , painstaking , precise , rigorous , scrupulous

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with meticulous
precious , delicious , obvious , ambitious

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Variants

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meticulosities , meticulosity , meticulous , meticulously , meticulousness , meticulousnesses

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Forms

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meticulousness, meticulously, meticulousnesses, meticulousnesses'

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Etymology

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From Latin meticulosus, meticulum ‘small measure, care’.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'meticulous' is derived from the Latin word 'meticulus', which means 'small measure' or 'care'.

2. In the field of chemistry, a meticulous experimenter is often referred to as a 'precision chemist'.

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Related Concepts

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1. fastidious: Similar to meticulous, but implying an unwillingness to accept anything less than perfect.

2. scrupulous: Thorough and accurate in one's actions, especially in avoiding wrongdoing or error.

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Quotes

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1. She was very much the craftswoman, all her work "meticulous", slow, perfect.

   - Simon Winchester,{it}The Professor and the Madman{/it},1998

2. In dense, "meticulous" arguments … Brooten mounts an assault on that view.

   - Cullen Murphy,{it}Atlantic{/it},August 1993

3. Always "meticulous" about his appearance in the past, he had become dirty and unkempt, with straggly hair, stained clothes, and patches of silver stubble on his chin.

   - Minette Walters,{it}Fox Evil{/it},2002

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Culture

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The term 'meticulous' has been used extensively in literature to describe characters who are painstakingly precise and detail-oriented. For instance, in Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov', the character Raskolnikov is described as meticulous in his investigation of the murder.

How to Memorize "meticulous"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a person carefully examining every detail of an object or task.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with the image of a clock or a fine-tuned machine.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create an acronym: 'M-E-T-I-C-O-L-O-U-S: Meticulous Effort To Inspect Carefully, Oversee Little Observations, Understand Subtlety, Learn Over Time.'

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