Synonyms:
meticulous, punctilious
Meaning: marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"
Usage examples
Mr Vladimir and the Assistant Commissioner, introduced, acknowledged each other's existence with punctilious and guarded courtesy.
He was careless to a fault in some things, and punctilious to a fault in others; and he was very punctilious about Priscilla Gower.
We French are not nearly so punctilious as you Americans, and I shall have no difficulty in smuggling you in, in the character of an old acquaintance."
With punctilious care he unbuttoned his gray cutaway, took out a wallet from under the button of the Society of Colonial Wars, drew forth a sheet of note paper, and with a pencil inscribed a broad O. 'There's my collateral, Mr. Cargan,' he said whimsically.