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| Main Entry: | meticulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detailed, perfectionist |
| Synonyms: | accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, crossing the t's, dotting the i's, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking*, painstaking, particular, persnickety*, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, stickling, strict, thorough |
| Notes: | meticulous first meant 'fearful' or 'timid' and now means 'exact, finicky, or precise'; scrupulous means 'conscientious or principled' |
| Antonyms: | careless, messy, sloppy, undetailed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | careful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious; painstaking |
| Synonyms: | accurate, alert, apprehensive, assiduous, attentive, chary, choosy, circumspect, concerned, conscientious, conservative, cool, deliberate, discreet, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fussy, guarded, heedful, judicious, leery, meticulous, mindful, observant, particular, precise, prim, protective, provident, prudent, punctilious, regardful, religious, rigorous, scrupulous, shy, sober, solicitous, solid, thorough, thoughtful, vigilant, wary, going to great lengths, playing safe, selfdisciplined |
| Antonyms: | careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, unconcerned, unscrupulous, uncareful |
| Main Entry: | circumspect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious, discreet |
| Synonyms: | attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, chary, considerate, deliberate, discriminating, gingerly, guarded, heedful, judicious, meticulous, observant, politic, prudent, punctilious, safe, sagacious, sage, scrupulous, vigilant, wary, watchful |
| Antonyms: | audacious, bold, careless, incautious, indiscreet, rash, uncareful, uncircumspect, unheedful |
| Main Entry: | deliberate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | advised, calculated, careful, cautious, cold-blooded, conscious, considered, cut-and-dried*, express, fixed, intended, meticulous, planned, predetermined, premeditated, provident, prudent, purposeful, scrupulous, studied, studious, thoughtful, voluntary, wary, willful, aforethought, designed, designful, done on purpose, judged, pondered, prearranged, predesigned, predeterminate, prepense, projected, purposed, purposive, reasoned, resolved, schemed, thought out, weighed, with forethought, witting |
| Antonyms: | chance, indeterminate, unintentional, unwitting, unmethodical, unsystematic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | detailed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itemized, particularized |
| Synonyms: | abundant, accurate, all-inclusive, circumstantial, complete, complicated, comprehensive, copious, definite, developed, elaborate, exact, exhaustive, finicky*, full, fussy*, individual, intricate, meticulous, minute, narrow, nice, precise, specific, specified, thorough, amplified, at length, blow-by-blow, circumstantiated, clocklike, described, disclosed, elaborated, enumerated, exhausting, individualized, point-by-point, seriatim, unfolded |
| Antonyms: | brief, cursory, sparing, uncomplicated, inexhaustive, nonspecific, undetailed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frugal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | Spartan*, abstemious, canny, careful, chary, discreet, meager, meticulous, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, provident, prudent, saving, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, tightwad*, wary, conserving, mingy, niggardly, penny-wise, preserving, scrimping, unwasteful |
| Antonyms: | generous, lavish, wasteful, spendthrifty, uneconomical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | methodical/methodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organized, precise |
| Synonyms: | analytical, businesslike, by the numbers, careful, cut-and-dried*, deliberate, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, logical, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, regular, scrupulous, systematic, tidy, together, all together, by the book, disciplined, in a groove, methodized, set-up, structured, well-regulated |
| Antonyms: | confused, disorderly, disorganized, imprecise, unmethodical/unmethodic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | punctilious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, finicky |
| Synonyms: | ceremonious, conscientious, conventional, exact, formal, fussy, heedful, meticulous, nice, observant, painstaking, particular, persnickety, precise, proper, punctual, scrupulous, strict, conscionable, formalistic, good eye, overconscientious, overscrupulous, right on |
| Antonyms: | careless, informal, uncaring, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | punctual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | on time |
| Synonyms: | accurate, careful, conscientious, constant, dependable, early, exact, expeditious, fussy, heedful, meticulous, on the nose*, painstaking, particular, periodic, precise, prompt, punctilious, quick, ready, recurrent, regular, reliable, scrupulous, seasonable, steady, strict, timely, under the wire*, conscionable, cyclic, in good time, on schedule, on the button, on the dot |
| Antonyms: | late, tardy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rigorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe; exact |
| Synonyms: | accurate, ascetic, austere, bitter, brutal, burdensome, correct, definite, dogmatic, exacting, hard, harsh, inclement, inflexible, intemperate, meticulous, nice, onerous, oppressive, precise, proper, punctilious, right, rigid, rugged, scrupulous, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, uncompromising, ironhanded, unpermissive |
| Antonyms: | easy, lax, lenient, loose, mild, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | scrupulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely careful |
| Synonyms: | conscientious, critical, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, honest, honorable, just, meticulous, minute, moral, nice, painstaking, particular, precise, punctilious, punctual, right, rigorous, strict, true, upright, conscionable, principled, thinking twice |
| Antonyms: | careless, negligent, unscrupulous |
| Main Entry: | methodical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organized |
| Synonyms: | analytical, businesslike, careful, deliberate, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, logical, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, precise, regular, scrupulous, set up, systematic, tidy, together, all together, disciplined, grooved, methodic, methodized, structured, well-regulated |
| Antonyms: | chaotic, disorganized |
| Main Entry: | hard-to-please |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely particular |
| Synonyms: | choosy, critical, demanding, detailed, finicky, fussy, meticulous, particular, picky, nit-picking, scrutinizing |
| Antonyms: | undemanding |
| Main Entry: | accurate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | precise |
| Synonyms: | authentic, careful, close, concrete, correct, definite, deft, detailed, discriminating, distinct, exact, explicit, factual, faithful, genuine, judicious, just, literal, matter-of-fact, methodical, meticulous, on the nose*, particular, proper, punctilious, punctual, regular, right, rigid, rigorous, scientific, scrupulous, severe, sharp, skillful, solid, specific, strict, systematic, true, unerring, unmistakable, veracious, defined, discriminative, on the button, on the money, ultraprecise |
| Antonyms: | careless, faulty, inaccurate, lax, vague |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conscientious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thorough, careful |
| Synonyms: | complete, diligent, exact, exacting, faithful, fastidious, fussy, hanging in, hanging tough, heart and soul into, heedful, meticulous, minding p's and q's, painstaking, particular, playing safe, punctilious, punctual, reliable, tough, walking on eggs |
| Antonyms: | careless, inexact, irresponsible, uncareful, unconscientious, unscrupulous |
| Main Entry: | exquisite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, excellent, finely detailed |
| Synonyms: | admirable, attractive, charming, choice, comely, consummate, dainty, delicate, delicious, discerning, discriminating, elegant, ethereal, fastidious, fine, flawless, impeccable, incomparable, irreproachable, lovely, matchless, meticulous, outstanding, peerless, perfect, pleasing, polished, precious, precise, rare, refined, select, selective, splendid, striking, subtle, superb, superior, superlative, cultivated, errorless, recherché |
| Antonyms: | crude, horrible, imperfect, inferior, poor, ugly, flawed, horrifying |
| Main Entry: | particular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exact, specific |
| Synonyms: | accurate, appropriate, circumstantial, detailed, distinct, especial, express, full, individual, intrinsic, itemized, limited, local, meticulous, minute, painstaking, peculiar, precise, scrupulous, selective, singular, special, thorough, topical, blow-by-blow, clocklike, particularized |
| Antonyms: | general, indefinite, inexact, imprecise |
| Main Entry: | thorough/thoroughgoing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhaustive |
| Synonyms: | absolute, all-inclusive, all-out*, assiduous, careful, circumstantial, complete, comprehensive, conscientious, detailed, efficient, exact, full, in-depth, intensive, itemized, meticulous, minute, painstaking, particular, plenty, royal, scrupulous, sweeping, tough, all the way, all-embracing, blow-by-blow, clocklike, from A to Z, full-dress, particularized, slam-bang, soup to nuts, whole-hog |
| Antonyms: | incomplete, partial, superficial, unfinished, inexhaustive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | correct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | proper, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, becoming, careful, conforming, conventional, decent, decorous, diplomatic, done, fitting, meticulous, nice, okay, punctilious, right, right stuff*, scrupulous, seemly, standard, suitable, comme il faut |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, incorrect, unsuitable, unfitting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exact |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, painstaking |
| Synonyms: | conscientious, demanding, exacting, finicky, fussy, heedful, meticulous, punctilious, punctual, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, strict, conscionable |
| Antonyms: | approximate, careless, unreliable, uncareful |
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