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Synonyms of scrupulous in English:

scrupulous


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adjective

1‘the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail’

SYNONYMS
careful, meticulous, painstaking, thorough, assiduous, sedulous, attentive, diligent, conscientious, ultra-careful, punctilious, searching, close, elaborate, minute, studious, rigorous, particular
religious, strict
pedantic, fussy
ANTONYMS

careless, slapdash

2‘the finances were in the hands of one of our most scrupulous colleagues’

SYNONYMS
honest, honourable, upright, upstanding, high-minded, righteous, right-minded, moral, ethical, good, virtuous, principled, proper, correct, just, noble, incorruptible, anti-corruption, conscientious, respectable, decent
ANTONYMS

dishonest, unscrupulous