Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - meticulous
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Meticulous
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If you describe someone as meticulous, you mean that they do things very carefully and with great attention to detail. He was so meticulous about everything... The painting had been executed with meticulous attention to detail. ADJ • meticulously The flat had been meticulously cleaned. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
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adjective Etymology: Latin meticulosus fearful, irregular from metus fear Date: 1827 marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details a ~ researcher Synonyms: see careful • meticulosity noun • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 giving great or excessive attention to details. 2 very careful and precise. Derivatives meticulously adv. meticulousness n. Etymology: L meticulosus f. metus fear ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. придирчивый, мелочно-дотошный; педантичный to be meticulous in little things —- быть педантичным в мелочах 2. тщательный a meticulous account of the event —- подробный отчет о событиях a meticulous worker —- добросовестный работник to be meticulous in one's dress —- быть тщательно одетым to be meticulous in the choice of words —- тщательно (осторожно) подбирать слова (выражения) I was amazed at the author's meticulous standards —- я был поражен тщательностью автора ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 very careful about small details, and always making sure that everything is done correctly (He kept meticulous accounts. | She pasted the cuttings into the scrapbook with meticulous care.) 2 if you are meticulous about doing something, you are very careful to always do it + in/abou (He's meticulous about replying to correspondence.) - meticulously adv - meticulousness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1535, from L. meticulosus "fearful, timid," from metus "fear." Sense of "fussy about details" is first recorded in Eng. 1827, from Fr. mйticuleux. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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