meticulous

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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

Đối diện của
sloppy, careless, slapdash, aggressive, carefree, meticulous
Tính thường xuyên

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Phát âm là (IPA)
/mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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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