meticulous
Pronunciation: /mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/
The English word “meticulous” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux.
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