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| 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 |
| Notes: | meticulous first meant 'fearful' or 'timid' and now means 'exact, finicky, or precise'; scrupulous means 'conscientious or principled' |
| Antonyms: | careless, negligent, unscrupulous |
| Main Entry: | above suspicion |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innocent |
| Synonyms: | blameless, guiltless, inculpable, irreproachable, scrupulous, sinless, above reproach, having clean hands |
| Main Entry: | assiduous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard-working |
| Synonyms: | active, attentive, busy, constant, diligent, eager beaver*, exacting, grinding, indefatigable, industrious, laborious, persevering, scrupulous, sedulous, steady, studious, unflagging, untiring, whiz, zealous, plugging |
| Antonyms: | lazy, neglectful, negligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | candid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, bluff, blunt, equal, equitable, fair, forthright, frank, free, genuine, guileless, impartial, ingenuous, just, objective, open, outspoken, plain, scrupulous, sincere, straightforward, truthful, unbiased, unequivocal, unprejudiced, up front, upright, frontal, right up front, talking turkey, telling it like it is, uncolored, unpretended |
| Antonyms: | artful, deceitful, devious, lying, tricky |
| 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: | chary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, cautious |
| Synonyms: | cagey, calculating, canny, circumspect, considerate, discreet, economical, fastidious, frugal, gingerly, guarded, heedful, hesitant, inhibited, leery, loath, miserly, particular, prudent, reluctant, restrained, safe, scrupulous, sparing, stingy, suspicious, thrifty, uneasy, wary, watchful, constrained |
| Antonyms: | careless, hasty, heedless, incautious, rash, willing, 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: | finicky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overparticular |
| Synonyms: | choosy, critical, dainty, difficult, fastidious, fussy, nice, persnickety*, picky, scrupulous, squeamish, finical, finicking, fussbudget, hard to please, nit-picking, overnice, stickling |
| Antonyms: | easy, open, uncritical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | completely honest |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, apparent, artless, blunt, bold, brazen, candid, direct, downright, easy, familiar, flat-out*, forthright, free, guileless, ingenuous, matter-of-fact, naive, natural, open, outright, outspoken, plain, real, scrupulous, sincere, straight, straightforward, transparent, truthful, unconcealed, uninhibited, unreserved, unrestricted, up front, upright, bare-faced, call a spade a spade, from the hip, heart-to-heart, lay it on the line, like it is, plain-spoken, saying what one thinks, undisguised |
| Antonyms: | devious, dishonest, evasive, insincere, secretive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fussy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, particular |
| Synonyms: | careful, choosy, conscientious, dainty, difficult, discriminating, exact, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fretful, fuddy-duddy*, heedful, painstaking, persnickety, picky, punctilious, punctual, querulous, scrupulous, squeamish, conscionable, finical, hard to please, nit-picking, overfastidious, picky-picky, stickling |
| Antonyms: | uncritical, undemanding, unfussy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | honest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | truthful, candid |
| Synonyms: | authentic, bona fide*, conscientious, decent, direct, equitable, ethical, fair, fair and square, forthright, frank, genuine, high-minded*, honorable, impartial, ingenuous, just, on the level*, open, outright, plain, proper, real, reliable, reputable, scrupulous, sincere, straight, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty, unfeigned, upright, veracious, virtuous, above-board, law-abiding, lay it on the line, like it is, no lie, on the up and up, true blue, undisguised, upfront, what you see is what you get |
| Antonyms: | deceptive, devious, dishonest, false, fraudulent, lying, misleading, treacherous, untrustworthy, untruthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | literal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | word for word; exact, real |
| Synonyms: | accurate, actual, apparent, authentic, bona fide, close, critical, faithful, genuine, gospel, methodical, natural, ordinary, plain, scrupulous, simple, strict, true, unerring, unvarnished, usual, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veritable, written, not figurative, to the letter, undeviating, unexaggerated |
| Antonyms: | exaggerated, figurative, imaginative, loose |
| 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: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | careless, messy, sloppy, undetailed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ethical, honest |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, blameless, chaste, conscientious, correct, courteous, decent, decorous, dutiful, elevated, exemplary, good, high-minded, honorable, immaculate, incorruptible, innocent, just, kindly, kosher*, laudable, meet, meritorious, modest, noble, praiseworthy, proper, pure, respectable, right, righteous, saintly, scrupulous, seemly, square, straight, true-blue*, trustworthy, truthful, upright, upstanding, virtuous, worthy, moralistic, principled, salt of the earth |
| Antonyms: | bad, corrupt, dishonest, evil, immoral, sinful, unethical, unprincipled, vile, amoral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | painstaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, thorough |
| Synonyms: | assiduous, by the numbers*, careful, conscientious, diligent, earnest, exact, exacting, finicky, fussy, heedful, industrious, particular, persevering, persnickety*, picky, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, sedulous, stickler*, strenuous, thoroughgoing, by the book, conscionable, fussbudget, hard-working |
| Antonyms: | careless, easy, half-baked, thoughtless, unmindful, half-done, unthorough |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prudish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy and strict in behavior |
| Synonyms: | Victorian*, affected, artificial, austere, bigoted, conventional, demure, fastidious, finicky*, genteel, illiberal, mincing, narrow, narrow-minded, precise, pretentious, priggish*, prim, prissy*, proper, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, square, squeamish*, starchy*, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight*, offish, overexact, overmodest, overnice, simpering |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing |
* = 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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