punctilious

Meaning of punctilious

adjective
  1. Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
    With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
  2. Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.

Information about punctilious

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of punctilious

punc-til-ious

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • punctilious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

punctilious synonyms

Meaning meticulous:

meticulous

Meaning :

finicky, nitpicky, precise

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