Today's Word "meticulous"
Published in Vocabulary
meticulous \muh-TIK-yuh-luhs\ (adjective) - Extremely or excessively careful about details.
"Donald Ray was seldom meticulous about anything. It went against his nature to think too much about any one thing at any one time." -- William Brashler, 'City Dogs'
Meticulous ultimately derives from Latin meticulosus "fearful" (from metus, "fear"). The present sense stems from French méticuleux "overscrupulous." In present day English, the word usually carries a more positive connotation and is synonymous with precise and punctilious.
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