meticulous

Betekenis (Engels)

1. Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
2. (archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.

Teenoorgestelde van

sloppy, careless, slapdash, aggressive, carefree, meticulous

Sinonieme

scrupulous

careful

fastidious

fussy

punctilious

precise

thorough

pernickety

particular

painstaking

pedantic

persnickety

exact

minute

exhaustive

squeamish

strict

conscientious

pharisaical

prim

punctual

regular

rigorously

sensitive

texture

vigilant

accurate

detailed and careful

cautious

ceremonious

discriminating

elaborate

exacting

expert

fault-finding

formal

grain

hair-splitting

in good order

just so

methodical

narrow

orderly

paltry

petty

Vertalings

méticuleux

meticuloso

meticoloso

soigneux

akribisch

sorgfältig

meticuloso

übergenau

scrupoloso

minutiös

akkurat

minuzioso

penibel

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/

Etimologie (Engels)

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.