Definitions
Extremely careful and attentive to detail.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“meticulous search”
“meticulous investigation”
“meticulous knowledge”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Extremely careful”10 letters
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