## Synonyms
- accurate
- careful
- comprehensive
- conscientious
- exhaustive
- fastidious
- groundly
- in-depth
- intensive
- letter-perfect
- mindful
- minute

## Antonyms
- automatic
- careless
- cursory
- haphazard
- perfunctory
- slapdash
- slipshod
- sloppy
- superficial
- surface-level
- thoughtless
- token

## Derived Forms
- meticulosity
- meticulously
- meticulousness
- unmeticulous

## Related Forms
- all-embracing
- all-encompassing
- all-inclusive
- bureaucratic
- cautious
- industrious

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: meticulōsus

## Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux.

## AI Etymology
Meticulous is a learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux. Important recorded forms include meticulōsus (Latin). Current senses include giving very careful and precise attention to every detail. The wider family includes derived forms such as meticulosity, meticulously, meticulousness, and unmeticulous and related words such as all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, bureaucratic, and cautious.

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