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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--punctilious This week's theme: words to describe people. punctilious (pungk-TIL-ee-uhs) adjective Extremely attentive to minute details of action or behavior. [From Italian puntiglio, from Spanish puntillo, diminutive of punto (point), from Latin punctum (point).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "However earnest his aims and punctilious his language, Fowler had not found his genius in schoolteaching, and he did not find it in his essays." I. Shenker; For the King's English, Fighting the Good Fight; Smithsonian (Washington DC); Nov 1990. X-Bonus Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (Nobel 1952)

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