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minutieux — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fastidious adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
  • minute noun A unit of time equal to sixty seconds, or one sixtieth of an hour.
  • painstaking adjective Done with great care and thorough attention to detail.
  • thorough adj Done with great care and attention, missing no detail.

Senses

minutieux is used for these senses in English:

  • fastidious Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
  • minute Very careful and exact, giving small details.
  • painstaking Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

fastidious — full definition

  1. adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
  2. adj (biology) Needing very specific conditions or nutrients to grow, and therefore difficult to culture.

minute — full definition

  1. noun A unit of time equal to sixty seconds, or one sixtieth of an hour.
  2. noun A written record of what was discussed or decided at a meeting (usually plural: minutes).
  3. adj (pronounced differently, my-NEWT) Extremely small, or extremely detailed and careful.

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