conscientious

adj
/ˌkɒn.ʃiˈɛn.ʃəs/UK/ˌkɑn.ʃiˈɛn.ʃəs/US

Etymology

From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin cōnscientiōsus. Its English equivalent could possibly be analyzed as conscient + -ous. See more at conscience.

  1. derived from cōnscientiōsus
  2. derived from conscientieux

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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

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.

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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.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA