Word familyadjectivescrutablescrutinizingscrutinousnounscrutatorscrutineerscrutinizationscrutinizerscrutinyverbscrutinizeadverbscrutinizinglyscrutinously
careful/close scrutiny• Abie did not bother to make a closer scrutiny.• His characteristicattitude is one of close scrutiny and interrogation; he puts his documents on the rack, as it were.• In both of these roles he is himself exposed to close scrutiny at the hands of other politicians and the media.• All bibliographical information provided by suppliers to libraries should be subjected to close scrutiny.• Incidentally, that experiment is now also under careful scrutiny in Professor Krauss's laboratory.• Foreign policy will come under close scrutiny.• Each process had to undergocareful scrutiny by the EnvironmentalHealth Department, and the cooks had to passmedicaltests.• Nelson's detailed account is well worthclose scrutiny for it illustrates many aspects of socio-ecology most cogently.
Originscrutiny
(1400-1500)Latinscrutinium, from scrutari“to search, examine”, from scruta“unwanted things, trash”