punctilious
/punk-TIL-ee-us/adjectiveshowing great attention to detail or correct behavior
“A punctilious clerk caught the one-cent discrepancy.”
- Synonyms
- meticulous, scrupulous, exact
- Antonyms
- careless, slapdash
- Memory hook
- punctum (point): correct to the smallest point.
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