Associations to the word «Punctilious»

Wiktionary

PUNCTILIOUS, adjective. Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
PUNCTILIOUS, adjective. Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.

Dictionary definition

PUNCTILIOUS, adjective. Marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats