meticulous

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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

Gegenteil von
sloppy, careless, slapdash, aggressive, carefree, meticulous
Frequenz

C2
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/
Etymologie (Englisch)

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.

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