Graphic Thesaurus 🔍 Display ON Animation ON Legend Synonym Antonym Related </>embed</> thoroughnessscrupulousnesspunctiliousnesspainstakingpainfastidiousnesscarefulnesscaremeticulous... noun Synonyms for meticulousness Roget's WordNet nounattentiveness to detail Synonyms care carefulness fastidiousness pain...
We're afraid we have some strange etymological news:meticulouscomes from the Latin word for "fearful"—metīculōsus—and ultimately from the Latin nounmetus, meaning "fear." Althoughmeticulouscurrently has no "fearful" meanings, it was originally used as a synonym of "frightened" and "timid."...
[uncountable] (approving) the quality of paying careful attention to every detail synonym fastidiousness (1), thoroughness Definitions on the go Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app. Check pronunciation: meticulousness...