conscientious
adjEtymology
From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin cōnscientiōsus. Its English equivalent could possibly be analyzed as conscient + -ous. See more at conscience.
- derived from cōnscientiōsus
- derived from conscientieux
Definitions
Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance
Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.
- He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.
Influenced by conscience
Influenced by conscience; principled; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).
- The advice of wise and conscientious people.
The neighborhood
- antonymcapricious
- antonymimpulsive
- antonymthoughtless
- neighborconscience
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at conscientious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at conscientious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at conscientious
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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