English Explanatory Dictionary

scrupulous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Exactly and carefully conducted.
  2. Having scruples or compunctions.
  3. Precise; exact or strict.
  4. Wrongly feeling guilt or anxiety about one’s morality; suffering from scrupulosity.

Pronunciation

/ˈskɹuː.pjə.ləs/ en-us-scrupulous.ogg

Word forms

scrupulous more scrupulous most scrupulous

Etymology

From Middle French scrupuleux, from Latin scrupulosus.

Synonyms

meticulous painstaking accurate careful comprehensive solicitous conscientious exhaustive fastidious groundly in-depth intensive letter-perfect mindful minute particular polished precise punctilious rigorous root and branch scrupulous scrutinous sedulous strict thorough tight worried ethical fair-minded honourable just moral righteous

Antonyms

unscrupulous Machiavellian

Related words

scrupulosity scrupulously scrupulousness
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