m 3 e 1 t 1 i 1 c 3 u 1 l 1 o 1 u 1 s 1
10 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective marked by precise accordance with details
adjective marked by extreme care in treatment of details
originLearned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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