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.
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Reviewers noted that the novelist, once known for blank prose, had pared her sentences down until scarcely a superfluous word remained.
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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