Meticulous Definition

mĭ-tĭkyə-ləs
adjective
Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.
American Heritage
Extremely or excessively careful about details; scrupulous or finicky.
Webster's New World

(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.

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Origin of Meticulous

  • From Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful"), from metus (“fear") and -culōsus, extracted from perÄ«culōsus (“perilous").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin metīculōsus timid from metus fear

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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