meticulous
英検準1級細心の・几帳面な
意味
- 細かなことに気を配る;(…に)細かく気を配る《+in+名(doing)》
例文
It is not necessary to be meticulous.
こせこせする必要はない。
He's not a very meticulous guy.
あいつもアバウトな性格だよな。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux.