meticulous 13 antonyms and opposites of meticulous. Adjective — Extremely careful and precise about details. Synonyms for meticulous accurate careful comprehensive solicitous conscientious fastidious exhaustive groundly in-depth intensive letter-perfect mindful minute particular polished precise painstaking punctilious rigorous root and branch scrupulous scrutinous sedulous strict thorough tight Antonyms for meticulous automatic careless cursory haphazard perfunctory slapdash slipshod sloppy superficial surface-level token unthinking thoughtless ← Back to the full definition of meticulous