meticulous

Senso (Inglese)

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

Opposto di
sloppy, careless, slapdash, aggressive, carefree, meticulous
Frequenza

C2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/
Etimologia (Inglese)

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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