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punctilious
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As an adjective, punctilious means strictly attentive to detail.
Meanings of punctilious
3 meaningsadjective
Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
“With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.”
Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
Marked by precise accordance with details
“meticulous research”
“punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette”
Similar: meticulous
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
adjective: marked by precise accordance with details
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