Meticulous vs. Precise — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Meticulous and Precise
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Meticulous
Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.
Precise
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Meticulous
(Archaic) Excessively careful and precise.
Precise
Marked by exactness and accuracy of expression or detail
Precise directions
I want as precise a time of death as I can get
Meticulous
Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
Meticulous search
Meticulous investigation
Meticulous knowledge
Meticulous report
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Precise
Clearly expressed or delineated; definite
The victim gave a precise description of the suspect.
Meticulous
(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
Precise
Exact, as in performance, execution, or amount; accurate or correct
A precise measurement.
A precise instrument.
Meticulous
Timid; fearful.
Precise
Strictly distinguished from others; very
At that precise moment.
Meticulous
Taking great care to get every detail correct; working thoroughly and with precision; as, meticulous workmanship.
Precise
Distinct and correct in sound or meaning
Precise pronunciation.
Precise prose.
Meticulous
Marked by precise accordance with details;
Was worryingly meticulous about trivial details
Punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette
Precise
Conforming strictly to rule or proper form
"The setting up of this Maypole was a lamentable spectacle to the precise separatists that lived at New Plymouth" (Thomas Morton).
Meticulous
Marked by extreme care in treatment of details;
A meticulous craftsman
Almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities
Precise
Exact, accurate
Precise
Consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value
Precise
Adhering too much to rules; prim or punctilious
Precise
To make or render precise; to specify.
Precise
Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
The law in this point is not precise.
For the hour preciseExacts our parting hence.
Precise
Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.
He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
Precise
Sharply exact or accurate or delimited;
A precise mind
Specified a precise amount
Arrived at the precise moment
Precise
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;
A precise image
A precise measurement
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