Meticulous

Adjective

 * 1)  Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
 * 2) Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.

Synonyms

 * careful, precise, painstaking, rigorous, scrupulous
 * See also Thesaurus:meticulous

Antonyms

 * sloppy, careless, slapdash

Derived terms

 * meticulosity, meticulousness

Adverbs for Meticulous
carefully; painfully; disagreeably; uncomfortably; unduly; curiously; extremely; admirably; laudably; unfailingly; systematically; outlandishly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From meticulosus: from metus: and -culosus:, extracted from periculosus:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 過細, 过细, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: angstvallig, scrupuleus, meticuleus, acribisch
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, peinlich genau, pedantisch (pej.)
 * Japanese: 細部まで行き届いた


 * Norwegian: omhyggelig
 * Polish: drobiazgowy, drobiazgowa, drobiazgowe
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: meticulos
 * Russian: скрупулёзный, дотошный, педантичный
 * Scottish Gaelic: pongail
 * Swedish:, omsorgsfull