meticulous /me-tikˈyə-ləs or -yŭ-/

1. Scrupulously careful
2. Overcareful
3. Timid (obsolete)

meticˈulously adverb

meticˈulousness noun

• hard lines
• hard luck
• hard-luck story
• hardly
• hardly able to believe one's ears
• hardly able to believe one's eyes
• hardly good enough
• hard man
• hard measures
• hard men
• hard-metal
• hard money
• hardmouthed
• hardness
• hardnesses
• hardnosed
• hard of hearing
• hardoke
• hardokes
• hard on
• hard-on
• hard ons
• hard-ons
• hard on the heels of
• hard pad