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 Much of the Red Barn’s irreplaceable art and ephemera, meticulously and lovingly curated over the years, was lost — but the music series, powered by the fireproof resiliency of those who oversee the collective, barely skipped a beat. — Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 And his film, at once proudly unlikable and meticulously realized, is both a daring display of craft and a rude sign of life—which is to say, the opposite of depressing. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026 Regarding the tapes, now legally in limbo, Owain Richards previously told the BBC about how meticulously his father kept the recordings for the past 25 years. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026 Costume designer Amy Roth watched hours and hours of footage of a young Stallone to nail the feel of his wardrobe, while production designer Anthony Gasparro meticulously recreated the sets from the 1976 movie. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026 The hotel first opened in 1915, but has since been meticulously restored and provides a charming home base for exploring nearby shops, restaurants, and galleries. — Kristy Tolley, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2026 Back in New York, Remm internalized the importance of meticulously planning what looked on the surface like drunk and lavish chaos. — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026 Wildflowers carpeted parts of Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where powerful arrays of radio antennas meticulously study objects in the southern sky. — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Below are photos of the Taschens’ meticulously restored Beverly Hills home. — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meticulously
  1. carefully
  2. systematically
  3. scrupulously
  4. microscopically
  5. minutely
  6. exhaustively
  7. comprehensively
  8. thoroughly
Adverb
  • People with eating disorders may exhibit compulsive behaviors around both exercise and eating, including working out for multiple hours every day and carefully calculating every aspect of their diet.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Some of these spaces were inhabited by horses or llamas, but many were just sown with Kentucky blue grass that was carefully cut every weekend.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of carefully
Adverb
  • Palestinians have been systematically dehumanized, along with the broader Arab and Muslim world, to serve the foreign policy objectives of governments without questioning the moral and legal implications.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The Premier League announced Tuesday that its most successful club over the past 15 seasons, and current standings leader, systematically broke financial monitoring rules for years.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • Coming up with materials that will do that work is actually the easy part; turning them into the microscopically-thin film of a solar sail is the real challenge.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 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
  • It has also only been trained on a limited number of cell types that biologists have studied exhaustively.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Preservation Connecticut’s searchable surveys, built in collaboration with the State Historic Preservation Office, exhaustively document historic barns, mills, artistic places, and town greens in every part of the state.
    — Jane Montanaro, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of exhaustively
Adverb
  • La Cinquecento has comprehensively reworked the little Italian icon into something collectors will line up over.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The court found the federal Pipeline Safety Act comprehensively regulates interstate pipeline safety, meaning individual states cannot interfere with or override federal authority on these operations.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of comprehensively
Adverb
  • Throughout, the thoroughly modern bathrooms have anti-fog mirrors and fluffy robes.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • My sympathies are entirely with Prince William, who's a thoroughly honorable, decent young man who's just had it with his brother and wants nothing to do with him.
    — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
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“Meticulously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meticulously. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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