— meticulously , adv. — meticulousness, meticulosity /meuh tik'yeuh los"i tee/ , n.
/meuh tik"yeuh leuhs/ , adj.
1. taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
2. finicky; fussy: meticulous adherence to technicalities.
[ 1525-35; meticulosus full of fear, fearful, equiv. to meti- for metu- (s. of metus fear) + -culosus, extracted from periculosus PERILOUS ]
Syn. 1. exact, strict, scrupulous. See painstaking .
Ant. 1, 2. careless.