METICULOUSLY Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

meticulously

adverb

Definition of meticulously

as in carefully

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as in systematically

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Recent Examples of meticulously An original European chandelier, once in the dining room, has been meticulously cleaned and preserved. — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026 The heart of it is the sushi counter, a beautiful bar where chefs work meticulously right in front of you, and where the eight-course Signature Omakase is served. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2026 The two-seater convertible was meticulously wiped down after these local adventures. — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026 Affleck’s direction is quite intentional, with each scene meticulously framed and lit, allowing stillness to permeate. — Carole Horst, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026 Most recently, Martha’s pruning expert Phurba Sherpa meticulously trimmed the boxwood border along both sides of her clematis pergola. — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Sep. 2026 Riding United is all about being open-minded, according to Vogel, who studies each course meticulously on foot to work out how many strides the pair should take between jumps. — Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 America’s sense of security was smashed with apocalyptic fury Tuesday when the most destructive and meticulously planned terror attack in history shattered two of the country’s most potent symbols. — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026 Explosives were carefully used to clear a path before army rescuers continued to meticulously dig by hand to reach any survivors inside. — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for meticulously

Adverb

The suites are smaller but just as carefully done, good for couples who'd rather spend the room budget on a spa treatment or an extra round of golf.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
Directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez created the film’s promotional website in 1998, filling it with fake police reports, evidence photographs and an elaborate mythology while carefully avoiding any suggestion that their story was fictional.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of carefully

Adverb

This analogy is strangely anticlimactic and almost consoling, but a pedestrian ending comes with the territory in a scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
The cleats, now scrupulously modeled in 3D simulations, originated as sharp metal nails, the kind sold at a local hardware store.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

Definition of scrupulously

Adverb

The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.

— Guy German, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
Coming up with materials that will do that work is actually the easy part; turning them into the microscopically-thin film of a solar sail is the real challenge.

— Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 2026

Definition of microscopically

Adverb

Roman, however, can uniquely sift through Andromeda’s stars much more minutely because of its wider field of view.

— Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026
The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Definition of minutely

Adverb

It has also only been trained on a limited number of cell types that biologists have studied exhaustively.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Preservation Connecticut’s searchable surveys, built in collaboration with the State Historic Preservation Office, exhaustively document historic barns, mills, artistic places, and town greens in every part of the state.

— Jane Montanaro, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhaustively

Adverb

Stark Future The new Sköll is also lighter, and more comprehensively equipped.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
The court found the federal Pipeline Safety Act comprehensively regulates interstate pipeline safety, meaning individual states cannot interfere with or override federal authority on these operations.

— Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of comprehensively

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