Synonyms:
conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous
Meaning: characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"
Usage examples
It is my opinion you are too conscientious
A really conscientious curate is a very difficult thing to manage.
He was a most estimable old man, and the most careful and conscientious doctor in the province.
You have been one of my most tractable and conscientious pupils and I have been proud of your progress.
Few can live a double life--honorable, conscientious, and exact in one part of the day, and corrupt in another.
After tea my father went to his study, for it was late in the week, and he was a most conscientious writer of sermons.
There was that in Felicia that would easily endure any condition in life if only the liberty to act fully on her conscientious convictions were granted her.
"'Jeff,' says Andy after a long time, 'quite unseldom I have seen fit to impugn your molars when you have been chewing the rag with me about your conscientious way of doing business.
It gave her a pang to hear that he was actually going, and her love pulsed higher; but she also felt a sense of relief, somewhat as a conscientious house-breaker might feel upon finding the door securely locked against him.
From the distance at which the courtship was being carried on, the male (who was, it must be admitted, a bit near-sighted congenitally) was unable to detect the change in personnel, and continued, even in the presence of the rubber eraser, to gyrate and undulate in a most conscientious manner, still under the impression that he was making a conquest.