conscientious as an adjective: - 1
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conscientious
adjective
1 conscientious
Characterized by extreme care and great effort:
— Conscientious application to the work at hand.
synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous.
Roget 21:
faithful;
lifelike
etc.
(similar)
17;
close,
conscientious.
unoriginal,
imitative,
derivative.
Roget 926:
obligatory,
binding;
imperative,
peremptory;
stringent
etc.
(severe)
739;
behooving
etc.
v.;
incumbent on,
chargeable on;
under obligation;
obliged by,
bound by,
tied by;
saddled with.
due to,
beholden to,
bound to,
indebted to;
tied down;
compromised
etc.
(promised)
768;
in duty bound.
amenable,
liable,
accountable,
responsible,
answerable.
right,
meet
etc.
(due)
924;
moral,
ethical,
casuistical,
conscientious,
ethological.
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Roget 939:
upright;
honest,
honest as daylight;
veracious
etc.
543;
virtuous
etc.
944;
honorable;
fair,
right,
just,
equitable,
impartial,
evenhanded,
square;
fair and aboveboard,
open and aboveboard;
white [U.S.].
constant,
constant as the northern star;
faithful,
loyal,
staunch;
true,
true blue,
true to one's colors,
true to the core,
true as the needle to the pole;
marble-constant"
[Antony and Cleopatra];
true-hearted,
trusty,
trustworthy;
as good as one's word,
to be depended on,
incorruptible.
straightforward
etc.
(ingenuous)
703;
frank,
candid,
open-hearted.
conscientious,
tender-conscienced,
right-minded;
high-principled,
high-minded;
scrupulous,
religious,
strict;
nice,
punctilious,
correct,
punctual;
respectable,
reputable;
gentlemanlike†.
inviolable,
inviolate;
unviolated†,
unbroken,
unbetrayed;
unbought,
unbribed†.
innocent
etc.
946;
pure,
stainless;
unstained,
untarnished,
unsullied,
untainted,
unperjured†;
uncorrupt,
uncorrupted;
undefiled,
undepraved†,
undebauched†;
integer vitae scelerisque purus [Lat.]
[Horace];
justus et tenax propositi [Lat.]
[Horace].
chivalrous,
jealous of honor,
sans peur et sans reproche [Fr.];
high-spirited.
supramundane†,
unworldly,
other-worldly,
overscrupulous†.
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Polish: skrupulatny
2 conscientious
Guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong.
Moby thesaurus: accurate, active, attentive, careful, cautious, censorious, choicy, choosy, circumspect, close, compliant, conforming, conscionable, constant, correct, critical, deferential, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, diligent, discreet, discriminating, discriminative, duteous, dutiful, ethical, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, fair, faithful, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, heedful, high-minded, honest, honorable, incorruptible, just, loyal, meticulous, mindful, minute, moral, narrow, nice, obedient, observant, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, perfectionistic, picky, politic, practicing, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, priggish, principled, prudent, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic, refined, regardful, religious, respectful, responsible, right, right-minded, righteous, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, serious, strict, subtle, tender-conscienced, thorough, true, upright, upstanding ... show more.
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