careful, meticulous, scrupulous, punctilious mean showing close attention to detail. careful implies attentiveness and cautiousness in avoiding mistakes.

​in a very careful or correct way so that you perform your duties exactly as you should. She observed the rules punctiliously.

When you do something punctiliously, you pay attention to doing it carefully and precisely. During the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace, ...

very careful to behave correctly or to give attention to details: He was always punctilious in his manners. Punctiliously · PUNCTILIOUS | definition in... · 意味, Cambridge 英語辞書での...

Someone who is punctilious is very careful to behave correctly. [formal] He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.

punctiliously · by the skin of one's teeth · exactly · heedfully · in conjunction with · mindfully · minutely · searchingly · similarly. adverb as in ...

The earliest known use of the adverb punctiliously is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for punctiliously is from 1698, in the writing of Robert ...

Synonyms for PUNCTILIOUSLY: formally, carefully, orderly, systematically, gingerly, meticulously, deliberately, methodically; Antonyms of PUNCTILIOUSLY: ...

punctiliously (not comparable). In a punctilious manner. quotations ▽. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent , 1st Australian edition, Sydney, ...