punctilious — Английский словарь

Прилагательное

1. Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.

   Примеры

   With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.

   He was punctilious. According to those who worked with him, even his paperwork was the best they'd seen.

2. Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.

   Синонимы

   finickynitpickyprecise

   Примеры

   Of course, humans do not treat time in such a punctilious fashion.

   Другие примеры (1)

   Every editor at Merriam-Webster deals with the Black Books at many points during their tenure. The Black Books are the in-house set of rules for writing a dictionary (commonly called a style guide) as conceived and written in punctilious detail by the former editor in chief Philip Babcock Gove, for the creation of Webster’s Third.

Прилагательное

1. marked by precise accordance with details

   Синонимы

   meticulous

   Примеры

   meticulous research

   punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette