Associations to the word «Punctilious»
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Adjective
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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.