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punctilious

adj
/pʌŋkˈtɪli.əs/

Etymology

From punctilio (“fine point in exactness of conduct”) + -ous.

  1. derived from pūnctum
  2. borrowed from puntillo
  3. borrowed from puntiglio
  4. suffixed as punctilious — “punctilio + ous”

Definitions

  1. Strictly attentive to detail

    Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.

    • With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
    • He was punctilious. According to those who worked with him, even his paperwork was the best they'd seen.

  2. Precise or scrupulous

    Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.

    • Of course, humans do not treat time in such a punctilious fashion.

The neighborhood

Derived

overpunctilious, punctiliously, punctiliousness, unpunctilious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at punctilious. 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 punctilious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at punctilious

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