meticulous• Our accountant is very meticulous about his work. I can't imagine him ever making a mistake.• Geoff, who now runs a successful computer software company, is meticulous about the detail throughout his home.• My mother was extremely meticulous and always made sure that every room in the house was spotlessly clean.• Hickey was nothing if not meticulous, and he had a flair for obscuring bad news in a fog of pieties.• This beautiful piece of jewellery is the work of a meticulouscraftsman.• Clough's particular strengthlay in the meticulous detail in which he recorded field data.• a meticulousmanager• He would listen to each reply, making meticulousnotes as he went.• He was also a meticulousparliamentarydiarist, providing the fullest known account of debates in 1626,1628, and 1629.• The interest was again chiefly rhythmic and required the most meticulous playing by all sections in the orchestra.• Massachusetts officials kept meticulous records of trials.• Flamsteed, meticulous to a fault, had spent forty years mapping the heavens-and had still not released his data.
Originmeticulous
(1800-1900)Latinmeticulosus“afraid”, from metus“fear”