meticulously

adverb

Definition of meticulouslynext
1
as in carefully

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2
as in systematically

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Recent Examples of meticulously While Barlow normally kept her car meticulously clean, Kramer said the recovered vehicle had been completely trashed inside and looked as though it had been driven under a fence. — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Hundreds of sauces meticulously arranged in neat rows, like soldiers standing at attention, greet us. — Vanessa Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 That's more incentive to meticulously seek out in-network care. — Stephanie O'Neill, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026 The historic home, which is more than 110 years old, had been meticulously restored and used as a guest house by Arsht. — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026 Both of these factors had to be taken into consideration by costume designer Deirdra Elizabeth Govan, who meticulously researched the faith and culture at the center of the film to tell a detailed story through the characters’ clothing. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026 With Joel and Ethan Coen, the process was often meticulously planned. — Callum McLennan, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026 Known for its innovative and meticulously designed products, Apple is spending its 50th year getting back to its roots. — Time Staff, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Manicurists use both manual and electric tools to meticulously trim and tidy the cuticles—leaving them as neat as humanly possible—and to prepare and shape your natural nails. — Lucy Abbersteen, Allure, 9 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meticulously
  1. carefully
  2. systematically
  3. scrupulously
  4. microscopically
  5. minutely
  6. exhaustively
  7. comprehensively
  8. thoroughly
Adverb
  • And remember to drive carefully, especially when the road narrows to a single lane.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Users should think carefully before resetting a forgotten PIN.
    — Fernanda Tronco, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of carefully
Adverb
  • Police arrested him again in April 2023 and started combing through the forest more systematically and exhuming mass graves.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Embodied Neurocomputation Framework treats this as an engineering problem, systematically optimizing information entering the neural network.
    — Mike McRae October 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of systematically
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
  • When a piece of plastic breaks down into microscopically small components, its total surface area goes up exponentially.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of microscopically
Adverb
  • Your own search will factor into this list, reorienting its order, however minutely.
    — Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of minutely
Adverb
  • Comparison shopping more exhaustively can be just that, exhausting.
    — Lindsay Owens, as told to Nina Zipkin, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • It has also only been trained on a limited number of cell types that biologists have studied exhaustively.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of exhaustively
Adverb
  • Africa has around 2,000 languages but very few are represented comprehensively in AI models, said academics on The Conversation.
    — Will Barker, TheWeek, 22 Oct. 2026
  • On Wednesday, the mood was gleefully electric as Atlanta comprehensively dismantled their opponents to take control of the series.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of comprehensively
Adverb
  • But an intravenous dose reaches the bloodstream more thoroughly.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The character was so thoroughly developed that Yerou and her team could hit the ground running on a marketing campaign.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2026
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