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overmeticulous

adj

Etymology

From over- + meticulous.

  1. learned borrowing from meticulōsus — “full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”
  2. formed as overmeticulous — “over- + meticulous”

Definitions

  1. Excessively or very meticulous.

    • Overanxious and overmeticulous supervision is almost certain to result in discontinued homes or overly dependent Family Care therapists.
    • Television viewing in excess can be unwittingly encouraged by a tired mother and also by an overmeticulous or overprotective one.

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No curated loop yet for overmeticulous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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