| 单词 | meticulous |
| 释义 | meticulous —meticulously, adv. —meticulousness, meticulosity /meuh tik'yeuh los"i tee/, n. /meuh tik"yeuh leuhs/, adj. 1. taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance. 2. finicky; fussy: meticulous adherence to technicalities. [1525-35; < L meticulosus full of fear, fearful, equiv. to meti- for metu- (s. of metus fear) + -culosus, extracted from periculosus PERILOUS] Syn. 1. exact, strict, scrupulous. See painstaking. Ant. 1, 2. careless. |
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