punctilious
Meaning of punctilious
adjective
- Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
- Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
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Hyphenation of punctilious
punc-til-ious
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- punctilious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
punctilious synonyms
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