méticuleux — meaning in English
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English meaning
- fastidious adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
- meticulous adjective Extremely careful and precise about details.
- painstaking adjective Done with great care and thorough attention to detail.
- pedantic adj Overly focused on formal rules, minor details, or technical correctness, often to an annoying degree.
Senses
méticuleux is used for these senses in English:
- fastidious Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
- meticulous Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
- painstaking Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
- pedantic Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
fastidious — full definition
- adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
- adj (biology) Needing very specific conditions or nutrients to grow, and therefore difficult to culture.