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Meticulous vs. Precise — What's the Difference?

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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