meticulous
muh-TIK-yuh-lusadjMeaning very careful about every small detail
Memory hook me-TICK-ulous: every box gets a TICK. Maya puts a tick next to every item on her packing list, then checks each one twice: she is meticulous.
Lila keeps a meticulous record of every bird she sees, with the date, the time and the weather.
In context Felix’s first sketches were messy, but his final map was meticulous: every street was labeled, every tree was drawn and not one line was out of place.
Similar painstaking, thorough, precise, careful
Opposite careless, sloppy, slapdash
From Latin meticulosus, “timid, fearful,” from metus (fear). A meticulous worker is careful, as if afraid of the smallest mistake.