meticulousness
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yə adjective
1.
taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
2.
finicky; fussy: meticulous adherence to technicalities.
Origin:
1525–35; < Latin metīculōsus full of fear, fearful, equivalent to metī- for metū- (stem of metus fear) + -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus perilous
1525–35; < Latin metīculōsus full of fear, fearful, equivalent to metī- for metū- (stem of metus fear) + -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus perilous
Related forms
me·tic·u·lous·ly, adverb
un·me·tic·u·lous, adjective
un·me·tic·u·lous·ly, adverb
un·me·tic·u·lous·ness, noun
Antonyms
1, 2. careless.
1, 2. careless.
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| —adj | |
| very precise about details, even trivial ones; painstaking | |
| [C16 (meaning: timid): from Latin meticulōsus fearful, from metus fear] | |
| me'ticulously | |
| —adv | |
| me'ticulousness | |
| —n | |
| meticulous (mɪˈtɪkjʊləs) | |
| —adj | |
| very precise about details, even trivial ones; painstaking | |
| [C16 (meaning: timid): from Latin meticulōsus fearful, from metus fear] | |
| me'ticulously | |
| —adv | |
| me'ticulousness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
meticulous
1530s, from L. meticulosus "fearful, timid," lit. "full of fear," from metus "fear," of unknown origin. Sense of "fussy about details" is first recorded in English 1827, from Fr. méticuleux. Related: Meticulousness.
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Example sentences
One reviewer felt that there is impressive quality, impressive depth and meticulousness of thought applied to the cores.
He is the master clockmaker of novelists, piecing together the cogs and wheels of his plots with unerring meticulousness.
Such nominal subjects are nowadays brought into play to take the stigma off meticulousness in draftsmanship.
But his work there has set a standard for meticulousness and gravity.
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