| 单词 | punctilious |
| 释义 | punctilious (once / 4270 pages) adj A punctilious person pays attention to details. Are you always precisely on time? Is your room perfectly neat? Do you never forget a birthday or a library book's due date? Then you are one of the punctilious people. The adjective punctilious, pronounced "punk-TIL-ee-us," is related to the Italian word puntiglio, meaning "fine point." For someone who is punctilious no point is too fine, no detail too small, to be overlooked. The word is often used to describe people, but it can be used more broadly to apply to observations, behavior, or anything else that is characterized by close attention to detail. WORD FAMILYpunctilious: punctiliously, punctiliousness USAGE EXAMPLESIn this and in other small ways I sensed a power struggle, which is at odds with the otherwise punctilious hospitality. Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016) In the end, Knopf declined to enter the lists, but other publishers were not so punctilious. The New Yorker(Dec 04, 2016) She came across as secretive and perhaps not quite punctilious in her observance of the law. Economist(Oct 20, 2016) adj marked by precise accordance with details punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette Syn meticulous precise sharply exact or accurate or delimited |
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