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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Punctilious \Punc*til"ious\ (-y[u^]s), adjective [Cf. It. puntiglioso, Sp. puntilloso.] Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. ''A punctilious observance of divine laws.'' --Rogers. ''Very punctilious copies of any letters.'' --The Nation.
Punctilious in the simple and intelligible instances of common life. --I. Taylor. -- {Punc*til"ious*ly}, adverb -- {Punc*til"ious*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
punctilious
adjective: marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: {meticulous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "punctilious": accurate, active, attentive, careful, censorious, choicy, choosy, close, compliant, conforming, conscientious, conscionable, constant, conventional, correct, critical, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, discriminating, discriminative, duteous, dutiful, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, formal, fussy, heedful, loyal, methodical, meticulous, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, observant, orderly, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, perfectionistic, picky, practicing, precious, precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, priggish, prudish, punctual, puristic, puritanic, refined, regardful, religious, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, strict, subtle, tender-conscienced, true
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