punctilious

About 0.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. 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.

2. adjective Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.

Similar words

meticulous precise punctual fastidious careful ceremonious finicky pernickety nitty nitpicky

Often followed by

in about and observance as courtesy attention regard care

Word family

punctiliously punctiliousness punctiliousnesses