adjective Showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.
‘he had always been so meticulous about his appearance’
More example sentences
‘The film is visually spectacular, with epic battle scenes and meticulous attention to period detail.’ ‘You are minutely analytical and can fulfill any task that requires meticulous attention to detail.’ ‘It is his meticulous attention to detail which has brought him the fast cars and the fast lifestyle he has enjoyed.’ ‘He reveals a meticulous attention to detail when discussing what he looks for in a player.’ ‘The book is impressive both in its scope and in the author's meticulous attention to detail.’ ‘He said no items had yet been recovered from the property but a careful and meticulous search would be carried out.’ ‘The raid by Russia's elite forces was planned in the most meticulous detail.’ ‘In line with the management's meticulous eye for detail, some changes are tiny.’ ‘As a General, Monty was a great planner, meticulous in his attention deal.’ ‘Their leader must be a very, very intelligent, meticulous and careful person.’ ‘The Tribunal plainly considered the objective facts with meticulous care and in great detail.’ ‘It's hard to devise an argument that debunks the merit of his meticulous methodology.’ ‘She had planned for her retirement and old age with meticulous care.’ ‘Although he had prepared the expedition with meticulous care, the campaign was bungled.’ ‘How fabulous it would be to have a willing helper to load my gear onto boats and rig my kit with meticulous care!’ ‘You are known to be a rather meticulous musician, with a great attention to details.’ ‘She was very careful in her everyday life and was meticulous and was not the type of person to approach strangers.’ ‘He is a fantastically meticulous actor but if he isn't reined in this detail becomes fussiness.’ ‘A meticulous lecturer and painfully accurate author, he instilled the same standards in his pupils.’ ‘Oral odours are best treated through meticulous oral hygiene and optimal dental care.’ Synonyms
careful , conscientious, diligent, ultra-careful, scrupulous, punctilious, painstaking, demanding, exacting, accurate, correct
View synonyms Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘fearful or timid’): from Latin meticulosus, from metus ‘fear’. The word came to mean ‘overcareful about detail’, hence the current sense (early 19th century).