meticulous

Significado (Inglês)

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

Oposto de
sloppy, careless, slapdash, aggressive, carefree, meticulous
Freqüência

C2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/
Etimologia (Inglês)

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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