meticulous
adjEtymology
Learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux.
Definitions
Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
- meticulous search
- meticulous investigation
- meticulous knowledge
Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
The neighborhood
- synonymaccurate
- synonymcareful
- synonymcomprehensive
- synonymsolicitous
- synonymconscientious
- synonymexhaustive
- synonymfastidious
- synonymgroundly
- synonymin-depth
- synonymintensive
- synonymletter-perfect
- synonymmindful
- antonymautomatic
- antonymcareless
- antonymcursory
- antonymhaphazard
- antonymperfunctory
- antonymslapdash
- antonymslipshod
- antonymsloppy
- antonymsuperficial
- antonymsurface-level
- antonymtoken
- antonymunthinking
- neighborall-embracing
- neighborall-encompassing
- neighborall-inclusive
- neighborbureaucratic
- neighborcautious
- neighborindustrious
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at meticulous. 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 meticulous. 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 meticulous
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