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meticulous

/məˈtɪkjələs/

B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister

General adjective

Showing great attention to detail and care over accuracy.

Her meticulous record-keeping made the audit remarkably straightforward.

Similar: thorough, scrupulous, painstaking

Topic: Cambridge C1 Advanced in General English

Business adjective

Showing great attention to detail and being very careful and precise.

The associate's meticulous reconciliation of the two datasets caught a costing error worth millions.

Similar: scrupulous, painstaking

Topic: Consulting in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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