meticulous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/|/mɪˈtɪkjuləs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
    — meticulous search
  2. Timid, fearful, overly cautious. archaic

词形变化

more meticulous comparative most meticulous superlative

词汇关系

近义词
accurate careful comprehensive solicitous conscientious exhaustive fastidious groundly in-depth intensive letter-perfect mindful minute particular polished precise painstaking punctilious rigorous root and branch scrupulous scrutinous sedulous strict thorough tight
反义词
automatic careless cursory haphazard perfunctory slapdash slipshod sloppy superficial surface-level token unthinking thoughtless
衍生词
meticulosity meticulously meticulousness overmeticulous unmeticulous
相关词
all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive bureaucratic cautious industrious

词源

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.
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