meticulous
showing great attention to detail; very careful
Word origin: From Latin meticulosus, fearful, from metus, fear.
Meticulous in a sentence
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Her meticulous notes allowed others to reproduce the experiment exactly.
Her meticulous documentation of each specimen allowed later researchers to reconstruct the experiment without ambiguity.
Using “meticulous” well
Meticulous praises extreme care and attention to detail, a positive term unlike fussy or pedantic. It suggests thoroughness rather than mere anxiety.
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