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- pronunciation:
- mih
tIk
y
ls
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
carefully attentive to every small detail; painstaking.
He appreciated having a meticulous editor who would pore over his manuscript.
- synonyms:
- careful, conscientious, diligent, exact, fussy, painstaking, picky
- antonyms:
- careless, hit-or-miss, loose, slapdash
- similar words:
- accurate, close, correct, detailed, exacting, fastidious, minute, narrow, particular, perfectionist, precise, punctilious, rigorous, scrupulous, strict, thorough
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| related words: |
critical, dainty, diligent, elaborate, finicky, rigid, serious, solid |
adverb + (adj.)meticulous
extremely, incredibly, normally
(adj.)meticulous
+ noun
account,
accounting,
accuracy,
appearance,
arrangement,
attention,
care,
chart,
composition,
concentration,
construction,
copy,
craftsman,
craftsmanship,
creation,
description,
detail,
display,
dissection,
document,
drawing,
dresser,
elegance,
engineer,
engineering,
examination,
excavation,
execution,
fashion,
habit,
handwriting,
instruction,
investigation,
manner,
measurement,
negotiation,
note,
notebook,
observation,
planner,
planning,
precision,
preparation,
process,
realism,
reconstruction,
record,
rendering,
reporting,
research,
researcher,
restoration,
rocket,
row,
scholar,
scholarship,
search,
sketch,
task,
technique,
tracing,
work
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| derivations: |
meticulously (adv.), meticulousness (n.) |
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