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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective meticulous has 2 senses

• meticulous(s = adj.all) punctilious - marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"
Derived forms noun meticulosity₁, noun meticulousness₁

• meticulous(s = adj.all) Array - marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"
Derived forms noun meticulosity₁, noun meticulousness₁

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THESAURUS

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

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Fastidiousness

N fastidiousness, nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise, epicurism, omnia suspendens naso, epicure, gourmet, prudery, fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned, squeasy, queasy, hard to please, difficult to please, querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous, censorious, hypercritical, overcritical, noli me tangere.

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