punctilious

1. 1.

   marked by precise accordance with details

   “meticulous research”

   “punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette”

   Synonymsmeticulous

   Similarprecise

Questions about punctilious

What does punctilious mean?

punctilious means "marked by precise accordance with details".

How many syllables are in punctilious?

punctilious has 4 syllables: punc-til-i-ous. The stress falls on "til". In IPA it is /pəŋkˈtɪliəs/.

What is another word for punctilious?

Close synonyms include meticulous. 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.

Is punctilious a common word?

punctilious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.