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Word entry · 10 letters

meticulous

Best crossword clue

"Extremely careful"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ceilmostuuStarts with MEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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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