punctiliously

1. 1.

   in a punctilious manner

   “he launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels”

Questions about punctiliously

What does punctiliously mean?

punctiliously means "in a punctilious manner".

How many syllables are in punctiliously?

punctiliously has 5 syllables: punc-ti-li-ou-sly. The stress falls on "li".

Is punctiliously a common word?

punctiliously 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.