meticulous
adjective
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Pronunciation: /mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/ / /mɪˈtɪkjuləs/
adj
Etymology: 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.
- Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
“meticulous search”
“meticulous investigation”
- Timid, fearful, overly cautious.