PUNCTILIOUS meaning: Extremely attentive to detail, meticulous

We found 28 dictionaries that define the word punctilious:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

punctilious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
punctilious: Merriam-Webster
punctilious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
punctilious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
punctilious: Collins English Dictionary
punctilious: Vocabulary.com
punctilious: Wordnik
punctilious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
punctilious: Wiktionary
punctilious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
punctilious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
punctilious: Infoplease Dictionary
Punctilious, punctilious: Dictionary.com
punctilious: Online Etymology Dictionary
Punctilious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Punctilious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
punctilious: Rhymezone
Punctilious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
punctilious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
punctilious: FreeDictionary.org
punctilious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
punctilious: Mnemonic Dictionary
punctilious: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)

punctilious: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

punctilious: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

punctilious: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective: Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
▸ adjective: Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.

Opposite:

careless, negligent, slack, slipshod

Types:

detail-oriented, particular, precise, meticulous, more...

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