meticulous
US/mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/
meticulous adjective: characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
Adjective
meticulous (comparative more meticulous, superlative most meticulous)
- Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
- meticulous search
- meticulous investigation
- Synonyms:
- painstaking, fastidious
- Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
- Synonyms:
- alert, attentive, careful, cautelous, cautious, canny, chary, circumspect, conservative, deliberate
- Antonyms:
- aggressive, carefree, careless, cursory, derelict, heedless, irregardless, irrespective, lash, lax
meticulous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
meticulous in Tamil
- மிக உன்னிப்பாக, மிக உன்னிப்பான, மிகச் சரியாக, மிகக் கவனமாக
meticulous in Urdu
- محتاط
meticulous in Bengali
- অতি সতর্ক, খুঁতখুঁতে
meticulous in Malayalam
- diligent, careful, conscientious
- വിശദാംശങ്ങൾ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്ന, അതിഷസൂക്ഷ്മതയുള്ള, കൃത്യമായ, ശ്രദ്ധയുള്ള, ജാഗരൂകനായ, നിഷ്കർഷിയുള്ള
More languagesFewer languages
- meticulous in Kannada
- ಅತಿಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮದ, ಅತಿನೆಚ್ಚಿನ, ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ವಿವರಗಳಿಗೆ ಗಮನ ಕೊಡುವ, ಕರಾರುವಾಕ್ಕಿನ
- meticulous in Tagalog
- malambis
- meticulous in Indonesian
- teliti
- meticulous in Vietnamese
- tỉ mỉ
Examples of meticulous in a sentence
- meticulous knowledge
- The meticulous care with which the operation in Sicily was planned has paid dividends.1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 28 July 1943:
- Currently, bodyshells for units 810024/025 are on the weld line. […] In the paint shop are bodyshells for 810022/023, which are undergoing a meticulous process to ensure a high-quality finish.2024 December 27, Pip Dunn, “Network News: Hitachi pushes on with '810' assembly and testing”, in RAIL, number 1025, page 20:
Synonyms of meticulous
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Antonyms
10 more antonymsFewer antonyms
Forms of meticulous
| comparative | more meticulous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most meticulous |
Origin of meticulous
Learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux.
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Questions about meticulous
- What does meticulous mean?
- Meticulous means characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
- What is meticulous in Tamil?
- Meticulous in Tamil is மிக உன்னிப்பாக, மிக உன்னிப்பான, மிகச் சரியாக. See Meticulous meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use meticulous in a sentence?
- meticulous knowledge
- What part of speech is meticulous?
- Meticulous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce meticulous?
- Meticulous is pronounced /mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/ (US).
Words near meticulous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: meticulous (page history and authors); meticulous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meticulous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meticulous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meticulous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); meticulous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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