conscientious

1. 1.

   characterized by extreme care and great effort

   “conscientious application to the work at hand”

   “painstaking research”

   “scrupulous attention to details”

   Synonymspainstakingscrupulous

   Similarcareful
2. 2.

   guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong

   “a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice”

   Antonymsunconscientious

Questions about conscientious

What does conscientious mean?

conscientious means "characterized by extreme care and great effort". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conscientious?

conscientious has 4 syllables: con-scien-ti-ous. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ˌkɑnʃiˈɛnʃəs/.

What is another word for conscientious?

Close synonyms include painstaking, scrupulous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of conscientious?

The recorded antonyms are unconscientious.

Is conscientious a common word?

conscientious is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.