conscientious
Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.ʃiˈɛn.ʃəs/
The English word “conscientious” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.
- Influenced by conscience; principled; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).
Etymology
From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin cōnscientiōsus. Its English equivalent could possibly be analyzed as conscient + -ous. See more at conscience.
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More English words
- consciencism
- consciencist
- conscient
- conscientiology
- conscientious objection
- conscientious objector
- conscientiously
- conscientiousness
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