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Meticulous vs. Scrupulous — What's the Difference?

Meticulous vs. Scrupulous — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Meticulous and Scrupulous

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Meticulous

Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.

Scrupulous

Conscientious and exact; painstaking.

Meticulous

(Archaic) Excessively careful and precise.

Scrupulous

Having scruples; principled.

Meticulous

Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
Meticulous search
Meticulous investigation
Meticulous knowledge
Meticulous report
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Scrupulous

Exactly and carefully conducted.
He is scrupulous in his finances.

Meticulous

(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.

Scrupulous

Having scruples or compunctions.
He is a scrupulous businessman and always acts in the best interest of his company.

Meticulous

Timid; fearful.

Scrupulous

Precise; exact or strict.

Meticulous

Taking great care to get every detail correct; working thoroughly and with precision; as, meticulous workmanship.

Scrupulous

Wrongly feeling guilt or anxiety about one’s morality; suffering from scrupulosity.
Because I have a scrupulous conscience, I sometimes need to be reminded that not everything I do is sinful.

Meticulous

Marked by precise accordance with details;
Was worryingly meticulous about trivial details
Punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette

Scrupulous

Full of scruples; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.
Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous.

Meticulous

Marked by extreme care in treatment of details;
A meticulous craftsman
Almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities

Scrupulous

Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.

Scrupulous

Given to making objections; captious.
Equality of two domestic powersBreed scrupulous faction.

Scrupulous

Liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice.
The justice of that cause ought to be evident; not obscure, not scrupulous.

Scrupulous

Having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled;
Less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance

Scrupulous

Characterized by extreme care and great effort;
Conscientious application to the work at hand
Painstaking research
Scrupulous attention to details

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