Difference between Meticulous and Punctilious

METICULOUS vs PUNCTILIOUS: ADJECTIVE

Marked by extreme care in treatment of details
Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.
Excessively careful and precise.
Timid; fearful.
Taking great care to get every detail correct; working thoroughly and with precision.
Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
Marked by precise accordance with details
Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.

Marked by precise accordance with details
Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct. : meticulous.
Precise; scrupulous.
Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.
Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.

Synonyms Particular, precise, scrupulous.
Attentive to punctilios; very nice or precise in behavior, ceremony, or intercourse; exact (sometimes, to excess) in the observance of rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.

Exquisite, Attentive, Detailed, Thoughtful, Rigorous, Conscientious, Careful, Thorough, Diligent, Scrupulous, Methodical, Painstaking, Precise, Punctilious, Fastidious

Tactful, Solicitous, Priggish, Impeccable, Decorous, Dutiful, Diligent, Pernickety, Pedantic, Conscientious, Assiduous, Scrupulous, Fastidious, Precise, Meticulous

Exquisite, Attentive, Detailed, Thoughtful, Rigorous, Conscientious, Careful, Thorough, Diligent, Scrupulous, Methodical, Painstaking, Precise, Punctilious, Fastidious

Tactful, Solicitous, Priggish, Impeccable, Decorous, Dutiful, Diligent, Pernickety, Pedantic, Conscientious, Assiduous, Scrupulous, Fastidious, Precise, Meticulous

Got the job done fast and very meticulous.
Kurt was always meticulous about keeping it locked.
Cheng was meticulous in his fitting and treatments.
Collecting legal due diligence is a meticulous process.
However, research is still a meticulous, painstaking process.
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The meticulous detail of every scene is incredible.
Meticulous analysis and investigation are the only answers.
Do you enjoy the meticulous detail of auditing?.
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Legend has it that he once arrived late for dinner, to be turned away by the punctilious monks.
Once they were models of propriety, known for their punctilious plating, starched white straitjackets and militant management.
Palestinian dispute, by all accounts he was punctilious in presenting these issues with dispassion and balance.
One might extend this notion to include punctilious observance of rabbinic laws, as well.
This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness.
Be punctilious of other militant players that clout put an end to you!
Such loose mathematical reasoning would have riled a punctilious logician like Dodgson.
He is an honest and very punctilious German.
Punctilious recognition of Maori aboriginal rights was required.