punctilious
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pʌŋkˈtɪli.əs/
punctilious
- Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:meticulous
- With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
- Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
- Synonyms: finicky, nitpicky, precise, Thesaurus:meticulous
- 2009, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Semantics: an introduction to meaning in language
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- French: pointilleux
- German: pedantisch, minutiös, korrekt, förmlich, peinlich genau, überkorrekt
- Russian: щепети́льный
- Spanish: punctilloso
- German: pedantisch, genau, präzise
- Russian: педанти́чный
- Spanish: punctilloso
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