Synonyms for meticulous
məˈtɪk yə ləsmetic·u·lous

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1. meticulousadjective

   Synonyms:
   careful, painstaking, scrupulous, rigorous, precise

   Antonyms:
   slapdash, careless, sloppy

2. meticulousadjective

   Timid, fearful, overly cautious.

   Synonyms:
   precise, careful, scrupulous, rigorous, painstaking

   Antonyms:
   slapdash, careless, sloppy

3. meticulousadjective

   Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.

   Synonyms:
   painstaking, careful, precise, rigorous, scrupulous

   Antonyms:
   careless, slapdash, sloppy

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1. meticulous, punctiliousadjective

   marked by precise accordance with details

   "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

   Synonyms:
   punctilious

   Antonyms:
   unfastidious, imprecise

2. meticulousadjective

   marked by extreme care in treatment of details

   "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"

   Synonyms:
   punctilious

   Antonyms:
   imprecise, unfastidious

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1. meticulousadjective

   Synonyms:
   timid, fearful, diffident

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1. List of paraphrases for "meticulous":

   thorough, careful, scrupulous, painstaking

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1. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   Greatness isn't an accident; it's the meticulous craftsmanship of consistency and determination.

2. Major General Peter Gersten:

   We have some healing to do too. … The passion and the honor of the paint team and design crews as they put this airplane together piece by piece, and scrubbed it piece by piece with meticulous detail was all based on the honor of being able to give back something to the community.

3. Santiago Albadalejos:

   We deploy higher protection than others because the patients we handle present intense symptoms and are more contagious, transfers are slow, and very meticulous.

4. Blake Charlton:

   Doctors are very meticulous people, you wouldn’t get to where we are if you were not.

5. Alon Barash:

   This was meticulous work, we had to CT scan each vertebra and all of the ribs fragments individually and then reassemble them in 3D.