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with Anu Garg
A Happy New Year to all the readers
from all of us at Wordsmith.org meticulous
PRONUNCIATION:
(muh-TIK-yuh-luhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
Extremely careful, precise, or thorough.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin meticulosus (fearful), from metus (fear). Originally the term
meant one who was fearful and eventually it acquired a positive sense.
USAGE:
"It was a movement that required the meticulous precision of a master
surgeon."George Pelletier; A Christmas Story in Two Parts Eggnog; Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire); Dec 24, 2009. See more usage examples of meticulous in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
When love is not madness, it is not love. -Pedro Calderon de la Barca, poet and dramatist (1600-1681)
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