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Meticulous

adjective

Marked by precise accordance with details. Synonym: punctilious. "Punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

Marked by extreme care in treatment of details. "Almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"

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"Meticulous" Quotes from Famous Books

... personal point of view—le Beylisme. It is in fact almost entirely in this secondary quality that their interest lies; their ostensible subject-matter is unimportant. An apparent exception is the book in which Beyle has embodied his reflections upon Love. The volume, with its meticulous apparatus of analysis, definition, and classification, which gives it the air of being a parody of L'Esprit des Lois, is yet full of originality, of lively anecdote and keen observation. Nobody but Beyle could have written it; nobody but Beyle ...

— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey

... be going now," said Nelly in the speech of the valley. She went away through the side-door, opening and shutting it with meticulous care, so that it would not make a sound. . . . As though a sound could reach Cousin ...

— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... spoken of the trailmen, my past had rushed back and stood, complete to yesterday's supper (only had I eaten that supper twelve years ago)? I remembered my father, a lined silent man who had liked to fly solitary, taking photograph after photograph from his plane for the meticulous work of Mapping and Exploration. He'd liked to have me fly with him and I'd flown over virtually every inch of the planet. No one else had ever dared fly over the Hellers, except the big commercial spacecraft that kept to a safe altitude. I vaguely ...

— The Planet Savers • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... directed our course along the shore-front under palm-trees, planted in stately rows with meticulous precision. He kept far enough to one side to avoid the charge of being seen walking with me, but from time to time tossed me remarks calculated to keep my ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... at Putney ready for her. Sir Isaac had not consulted her about it, it had been his secret, he had prepared it for her with meticulous care as a surprise. They returned from a honeymoon in Skye in which the attentions of Sir Isaac and the comforts of a first-class hotel had obscured a marvellous background of sombre mountain and wide stretches of shining sea. Sir Isaac ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Words linked to "Meticulous" : meticulousness, meticulosity, fastidious, precise, punctilious