meticulous

Reikšmė (Anglų k.)

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

Priešingybė
sloppy, careless, slapdash, aggressive, carefree, meticulous
Dažnis

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Tariamas kaip (IPA)
/mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/
Etimologija (Anglų k.)

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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