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Meticulous

adjective

Marked by precise accordance with details. Synonym: punctilious. "Punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

Marked by extreme care in treatment of details. "Almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"

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"Meticulous" Quotes from Famous Books

... are true or not, the fact remains that Mr. Koussevitzky became a conductor and a great one—one of the greatest. The yarn of the mirrors is the most credible of the lot, for the Russian batonist's platform appearance is so meticulous and his movements are so obviously studied to produce the desired effects that he seems to conduct ...

— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower

... he remembered swiftly and with extreme vividness; he could have reproduced like an echo the moaning of the engineer for the better information of these men who wanted facts. After his first feeling of revolt he had come round to the view that only a meticulous precision of statement would bring out the true horror behind the appalling face of things. The facts those men were so eager to know had been visible, tangible, open to the senses, occupying their place in space and time, requiring for their existence a fourteen-hundred-ton steamer and twenty-seven ...

— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad

... the preferences and shrinkings and shy delights, all proclaim a real and high culture. And, after all, the most notable point in his style is just its exactness. Over-precise it may be sometimes, and even meticulous, yet that is because it is the exact expression of a delicate and subtle mind. In his Appreciations he lays down, as a first canon for style, Flaubert's principle of the search, the unwearied search, not for the smooth, or winsome, ...

— Among Famous Books • John Kelman

... smoke-wrack flying abaft, and trudging steadily for the mouth of the harbour. I stood there, I think, fully three minutes before I moved or took action, but during that space of time I had jumped at the conclusion. I was not wanted aboard. Was it Day? No; the idea was absurd, as he was most meticulous in his observation of the conventions. It certainly was not the Prince. The inference was only too obvious. The hour of sailing had been shifted. ...

— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson

Words linked to "Meticulous" : meticulosity, meticulousness, fastidious, precise