Usually means: Extremely careful about small details.
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  1. meticulous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. meticulous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meticulous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meticulous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. meticulous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Meticulous, meticulous: Wordnik
  7. meticulous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. meticulous: Wiktionary
  9. meticulous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. meticulous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. meticulous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Meticulous, meticulous: Dictionary.com
  13. meticulous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. meticulous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Meticulous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Meticulous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. meticulous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. meticulous: Rhymezone
  19. meticulous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. meticulous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. meticulous: Free Dictionary
  22. meticulous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. meticulous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. meticulous: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. meticulous: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meticulous: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See meticulosity as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.

Similar:
punctilious, fastidious, precise, detailed, careful, negotious, narrow, white-glove, exquisite, minutiose, more...

Opposite:
careless, slack, negligent

Types:
anal, picky, fastidious, more...

Phrases:
very meticulous, opposite of meticulous, methodical meticulous, meticulous writing, meticulous attention, more...

Adjectives:
same, such, own, extra, invincible, least, frequent, more

Colors:
    slate gray,     charcoal,     navy blue,     forest green,     burgundy, more...


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Similar:
punctilious, fastidious, precise, detailed, careful, negotious, narrow, white-glove, exquisite, minutiose, more...

Opposite:
careless, slack, negligent

Types:
anal, picky, fastidious, more...

Phrases:
very meticulous, opposite of meticulous, methodical meticulous, meticulous writing, meticulous attention, methodical meticulous grace, meticulous examination, overly meticulous, more...

Adjectives:
same, such, own, extra, invincible, least, frequent, more

Colors:
    slate gray,     charcoal,     navy blue,     forest green,     burgundy, more...



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