This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for punctilious

a-z
Adjective

  1. Showing or marked by attentiveness to all aspects or details

    See also:

    careful

  2. Fond of or given to ceremony

      1. Relating to or involving outward form or structure, often in contrast to content or meaning.
      2. Being or relating to essential form or constitution:
      3. Following or being in accord with accepted or prescribed forms, conventions, or regulations:
      1. Suitable for a royal court; stately:
      2. Elegant; refined:
      3. Flattering in an insincere way; obsequious.
      1. Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary:
      2. Conforming to established practice or accepted standards; traditional:
      3. Devoted to or bound by conventions to the point of artificiality; ceremonious.
      1. Strictly observant of or devoted to ceremony, ritual, or etiquette; punctilious:
      2. Characterized by ceremony.
      3. In accord with prescribed or customary usage; rigidly formal.
    See also:

    courtesy

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for punctilious

Modifier
      1. Strictly and completely in accord with fact; not deviating from truth or reality:
      2. Characterized by accurate measurements or inferences with small margins of error; not approximate:
      3. Characterized by strict adherence to standards or rules:
      1. Of, belonging to, or associated with a specific person, group, thing, or category; not general or universal:
      2. Distinctive among others of the same group, category, or nature; noteworthy or exceptional:
      3. Of, relating to, or providing details; precise:
      1. Relating to or involving outward form or structure, often in contrast to content or meaning.
      2. Being or relating to essential form or constitution:
      3. Following or being in accord with accepted or prescribed forms, conventions, or regulations:
    See also:

    careful

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He is an honest and very punctilious German.

  • "As far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; but his character..." said Timokhin.

  • The kingdom of Jerusalem consisted of a society of peers, in which the king might be Primus, but in which he was none the less subject to a punctilious law, regulating his position equally with that of every member of the society.

  • The Ramanuja Brahmans are most punctilious in the preparation of their food and in regard to the privacy of their meals, before taking which they have to bathe and put on woollen or silk garments.

  • As president he was punctilious in the discharge of his duties, ready to give help and encouragement to artists young and old, and his tenure of the office was marked by some wise and liberal reforms. He frequently went abroad, generally to Italy, where he was well known and appreciated.

More sentences →

Words near punctilious in the Thesaurus