meticulous

meticulous
    adj 1: marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous
           research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of
           etiquette" [syn: {meticulous}, {punctilious}]
    2: marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous
       craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business
       formalities"
    

Meticulous \Me*tic"u*lous\, a. [L. meticulosus, fr. metus fear:
   cf. F. m['e]ticuleux.]
   Timid; fearful. [archaic]
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   2. Taking great care to get every detail correct; working
      thoroughly and with precision; as, meticulous workmanship.
      [PJC] -- {Me*tic"u*lous*ly}, adv.
      [1913 Webster]
    

136 Moby Thesaurus words for "meticulous":
      OK, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, accurate, active, advertent,
      agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, all right, assiduous, astringent,
      attentive, austere, authoritarian, aware, careful, cautious,
      censorious, choicy, choosy, close, compliant, concentrated,
      conforming, conscientious, conscionable, conscious, constant,
      correct, critical, dead right, delicate, demanding, detailed,
      devoted, devout, diligent, discriminating, discriminative, dour,
      duteous, dutiful, earnest, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite,
      faithful, fastidious, faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky,
      flawless, full, fussy, grim, harsh, heedful, intense, intent,
      intentive, just, just right, letter-perfect, loyal, methodical,
      microscopic, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, niggling, observant,
      observing, okay, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed,
      openmouthed, orderly, overconscientious, overscrupulous,
      painstaking, particular, perfect, perfectionist, perfectionistic,
      pernickety, picayune, picky, practicing, precious, precise,
      precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, priggish,
      proper, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic,
      refined, regardful, religious, right, rigid, rigorous, rugged,
      scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, severe, special,
      specific, stern, straight, straight-up-and-down, strict, stringent,
      subtle, tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, true, unsparing,
      watchful