630 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pʌŋktˈɪlɪəs], [ pʌŋktˈɪlɪəs], [ p_ʌ_ŋ_k_t_ˈɪ_l_ɪ__ə_s]

Similar words for punctilious:

• accurate (adjective)
• careful (adjective)
• careful, finicky (adjective)
• ceremonious (adjective)
• circumspect (adjective)
• conscientious (adjective)
• correct (adjective)
• decorous (adjective)
• dutiful (adjective)
• exact (adjective)
• exemplary (adjective)
• fastidious (adjective)
• formal (adjective)
• fussy (adjective)
• lily-white (adjective)
• meticulous (adjective)
• minute (adjective)
• orthodox (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• painstaking (adjective)
• pedantic (adjective)
• polite (adjective)
• proper (adjective)
• punctual (adjective)
• refined (adjective)
• religious (adjective)
• right (adjective)
• righteous (adjective)
• rigorous (adjective)
• stiff (adjective)
• strict (adjective)
• unblamable (adjective)
• upright (adjective)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Synonyms for Punctilious:

• adj.

  • accurate (adjective)
  • matter-of-fact,
  • de-fined,
  • de-tailed,
  • unerring,
  • de fined,
  • un-erring,
  • dis-criminative,
  • more concrete,
  • on money,
  • on the money,
  • dis-criminating,
  • most ultraprecise,
  • ultra precise,
  • dis criminative,
  • more ultraprecise,
  • de finite,
  • un-mistakable,
  • most defined,
  • faithful,
  • veracious,
  • de tailed,
  • un mistakable,
  • severe,
  • more defined,
  • de-finite,
  • dis criminating,
  • on nose,
  • un erring,
  • re gular,
  • on button,
  • ultra-precise,
  • ultraprecise,
  • explicit,
  • re-gular.
  • careful (adjective)
  • de-liberate,
  • more careful,
  • self disciplined,
  • going great lengths,
  • observant,
  • more selfdisciplined,
  • more thorough,
  • ex-acting,
  • most selfdisciplined,
  • most thorough,
  • de liberate,
  • ex acting.
  • careful, finicky (adjective)
  • particular,
  • Overscrupulous,
  • nice,
  • punctual,
  • heedful,
  • overconscientious,
  • good eye,
  • right on,
  • persnickety.
  • ceremonious (adjective)
  • striking,
  • impressive,
  • grandiose.
  • circumspect (adjective)
  • safest,
  • SAFER,
  • gingerly.
  • conscientious (adjective)
  • heart soul into,
  • re-liablest,
  • minding ps and qs,
  • heart soul in to,
  • walking eggs,
  • more diligent,
  • minding p q,
  • minding p's q's,
  • minding ps qs,
  • heart and soul in to,
  • re liabler,
  • re-liabler,
  • re liablest,
  • re liable,
  • re-liable,
  • minding p and q,
  • hanging in.
  • correct (adjective)
  • be-coming,
  • be coming,
  • de-cent,
  • de cent.
  • decorous (adjective)
  • wellbehaved,
  • well behaved,
  • de-mure,
  • de mure,
  • be-fitting.
  • dutiful (adjective)
  • sub-missive,
  • reverential,
  • sub missive,
  • de-voted,
  • de voted.
  • exact (adjective)
  • ex-act,
  • ex act,
  • most conscionable,
  • more conscionable.
  • exemplary (adjective)
  • guiltless,
  • batting thousand,
  • more neato,
  • more bueno,
  • not too shabby,
  • re-presentative,
  • in-nocent,
  • most neato,
  • in culpable,
  • inculpable,
  • in nocent,
  • meritorious,
  • in-culpable,
  • re presentative,
  • most bueno.
  • fastidious (adjective)
  • delicate,
  • Stickling,
  • exacting,
  • demanding,
  • discriminating,
  • hypercritical,
  • finicky,
  • literal,
  • nit-picky,
  • critical,
  • discerning,
  • finical,
  • dainty,
  • prudish,
  • squeamish,
  • diligent,
  • Qualmish,
  • easily disgusted,
  • methodical,
  • over-nice,
  • perspicacious,
  • flawless,
  • overnice,
  • prim,
  • mincing,
  • hard to please,
  • choosy,
  • overdelicate,
  • epicurean,
  • fussbudgety,
  • picky,
  • accurate,
  • priggish.
  • formal (adjective)
  • more ceremonialistic,
  • stereo typical,
  • ex-press,
  • stereo-typical,
  • more ritual,
  • un bending,
  • stereo typed,
  • most ceremonialistic,
  • most formalistic,
  • straight arrow,
  • pre-scribed,
  • pre scribed,
  • most starched,
  • stereo-typed,
  • un-bending,
  • re-served,
  • playing game,
  • re served,
  • ex press,
  • most ritual,
  • more formalistic,
  • more starched.
  • fussy (adjective)
  • more fuddyduddy,
  • most picky-picky,
  • more picky picky,
  • most picky picky,
  • more fuddy-duddy,
  • over fastidious,
  • most fuddyduddy,
  • picky picky,
  • fuddyduddy,
  • fuddy duddy,
  • more nit-picking,
  • nit picking,
  • most pickypicky,
  • more nit picking,
  • over-fastidious,
  • most fuddy-duddy,
  • pickypicky,
  • most nit-picking,
  • more picky-picky,
  • most overfastidious,
  • most nit picking,
  • more fuddy duddy,
  • most fuddy duddy,
  • more pickypicky,
  • more overfastidious.
  • lily-white (adjective)
  • lilywhite.
  • meticulous (adjective)
  • crossing t's,
  • crossing the ts,
  • crossing ts,
  • dotting i,
  • crossing t,
  • dotting i's,
  • dotting the is,
  • dotting the i,
  • dotting is,
  • crossing the t.
  • minute (adjective)
  • more particularized,
  • more clocklike,
  • most particularized,
  • most clocklike.
  • orthodox (adjective)
  • well-established,
  • doctrinal,
  • in line,
  • old-line,
  • received,
  • oldline,
  • old line,
  • die hard,
  • according to the book,
  • buttoned-down.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • fastidious,
  • exact,
  • lily white,
  • Iron-fisted,
  • free of error,
  • overfastidious,
  • scrupulous,
  • ceremonious,
  • not bad,
  • on the button,
  • incumbent on,
  • dead set,
  • out and out,
  • law-abiding,
  • donnish,
  • careful,
  • unmistaken,
  • precise,
  • nit-picking,
  • hardboiled,
  • Clocklike,
  • proper,
  • circumspect,
  • head-strong,
  • minute,
  • lily-white,
  • Irreprehensible,
  • matter of fact,
  • religious,
  • strict,
  • neato,
  • self-disciplined,
  • Starched,
  • Pedantical,
  • watertight,
  • Inkhorn,
  • ceremonialistic,
  • overprotective,
  • batting a thousand,
  • no nonsense,
  • inerrant,
  • conscientious,
  • selfdisciplined,
  • by numbers,
  • pedantic,
  • unblamable,
  • picky-picky,
  • decorous,
  • dotting the i's,
  • stiff,
  • ironhanded,
  • polite,
  • high-brow,
  • refined,
  • right as rain,
  • schoolish,
  • fussy,
  • upright,
  • heart and soul into,
  • blow by blow,
  • walking on eggs,
  • crossing the t's,
  • undistorted,
  • bueno,
  • ironfisted,
  • orthodox,
  • minding p's and q's,
  • thinking twice,
  • correct,
  • painstaking,
  • rigorous,
  • playing the game,
  • meticulous,
  • going to great lengths,
  • conscionable,
  • formalistic,
  • be fitting.
  • painstaking (adjective)
  • by the book,
  • fussbudget.
  • pedantic (adjective)
  • more donnish,
  • more schoolish,
  • most donnish,
  • doctrinaire,
  • most hairsplitting,
  • most schoolish,
  • more hairsplitting.
  • polite (adjective)
  • well mannered,
  • wellbred,
  • well bred,
  • goodnatured,
  • good natured.
  • proper (adjective)
  • stoner.
  • punctual (adjective)
  • on the dot,
  • on dot,
  • re current,
  • in good time,
  • re-current,
  • under wire,
  • on schedule.
  • refined (adjective)
  • most high brow,
  • high minded,
  • sub lime,
  • re-strained,
  • re-fined,
  • more high brow,
  • re fined,
  • more high-brow,
  • highminded,
  • sub-lime,
  • high brow,
  • re strained,
  • more aesthetic,
  • most high-brow.
  • religious (adjective)
  • un-swerving,
  • un swerving.
  • right (adjective)
  • in errant,
  • free error,
  • in-errant,
  • most amen,
  • un distorted,
  • in-fallible,
  • in fallible,
  • in dubitable,
  • un mistaken,
  • un doubted,
  • most undistorted,
  • most inerrant,
  • more inerrant,
  • most watertight,
  • most unmistaken,
  • more undistorted,
  • un-doubted,
  • un-distorted,
  • more unmistaken,
  • more watertight,
  • more amen,
  • un-mistaken,
  • in-dubitable.
  • righteous (adjective)
  • law abiding,
  • more lawabiding,
  • rightminded,
  • more law-abiding,
  • de serving,
  • most law abiding,
  • most law-abiding,
  • more law abiding,
  • most lawabiding,
  • right minded,
  • de-serving,
  • lawabiding.
  • rigorous (adjective)
  • in clement,
  • in-temperate,
  • most unpermissive,
  • in-clement,
  • un permissive,
  • in temperate,
  • more ironhanded,
  • more unpermissive,
  • unpermissive,
  • un-permissive,
  • most ironhanded.
  • stiff (adjective)
  • in-tractable,
  • un-easiest,
  • in tractable,
  • un-graceful,
  • most hardheaded,
  • un-natural,
  • un-easier,
  • un easier,
  • un easiest,
  • hardheaded,
  • un graceful,
  • un gainly,
  • un gainlier,
  • un-gainly,
  • un-relaxed,
  • un relenting,
  • un gainliest,
  • un relaxed,
  • unrelaxed,
  • un easy,
  • more unrelaxed,
  • most unrelaxed.
  • strict (adjective)
  • iron fisted,
  • more ironfisted,
  • nononsense,
  • more iron-fisted,
  • up tight,
  • more iron fisted,
  • most iron fisted,
  • most iron-fisted,
  • hard boiled,
  • up-tight,
  • most ironfisted.
  • unblamable (adjective)
  • un-blamable,
  • un blamable.
  • upright (adjective)
  • in-corruptible,
  • un impeachable,
  • un-impeachable,
  • in corruptible,
  • up right,
  • up-right,
  • trueblue.

• n.

  •
  • thorough,
  • cautious,
  • systematic,
  • provident,
  • organized.
  •
  • formal,
  • courtesy,
  • conventional.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • characteristic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • delinquent.
  •
  • courtly.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • niminy-piminy,
  • unbending,
  • small,
  • selective,
  • stilted,
  • deliberate,
  • high-minded,
  • prissy,
  • square,
  • perceptive,
  • accommodating,
  • supercritical,
  • right,
  • practicing,
  • hair-splitting,
  • mindful,
  • faultless,
  • trusted,
  • unfailing,
  • keen,
  • decent,
  • dependable,
  • earnest,
  • standard,
  • puritanic,
  • compulsive,
  • slight,
  • stringent,
  • de rigueur,
  • devoted,
  • difficult,
  • assiduous,
  • thoughtful,
  • reputable,
  • secure,
  • neat,
  • quibbling,
  • intricate,
  • calm,
  • exigent,
  • gentlemanlike,
  • normal,
  • unwavering,
  • duteous,
  • trusty,
  • sedulous,
  • filial,
  • responsible,
  • steady,
  • devout,
  • inflexible,
  • gentlemanly,
  • unruffled,
  • loyal,
  • formulaic,
  • solemn,
  • respectable,
  • constricting,
  • starchy,
  • sensitive,
  • obedient,
  • considered,
  • dutiful,
  • choicy,
  • active,
  • suitable,
  • submissive,
  • confining,
  • complete,
  • good,
  • precious,
  • composed,
  • subtle,
  • trustworthy,
  • Chop-logic,
  • orderly,
  • collected,
  • righteous,
  • exhaustive,
  • honest,
  • straitened,
  • complex,
  • regardful,
  • stable,
  • perfectionistic,
  • ladylike,
  • intent,
  • fine,
  • civil,
  • Scrutinizing,
  • constant,
  • curious,
  • pliant,
  • ceremonial,
  • superb,
  • credible,
  • fitting,
  • detailed,
  • believable,
  • regular,
  • ritual,
  • prescribed,
  • stately,
  • rigid,
  • pernickety,
  • pro forma,
  • seemly,
  • appropriate,
  • respectful,
  • due,
  • acquiescent,
  • apt,
  • infallible,
  • Comme Il Faut,
  • Precisian,
  • constrictive,
  • routine,
  • predictable,
  • genteel,
  • certain,
  • stiff-necked,
  • puritanical,
  • majestic,
  • indefatigable,
  • compliant,
  • principled,
  • strait-laced,
  • sharp,
  • archaic duteous,
  • conformist,
  • obliging,
  • malleable,
  • limited,
  • well thought out,
  • yielding,
  • courteous,
  • true,
  • exemplary,
  • elaborate,
  • defined,
  • ritualistic,
  • precisionist,
  • concentrated,
  • errorless,
  • veridical,
  • discreet,
  • honorable,
  • becoming,
  • focused,
  • industrious,
  • Puristic,
  • set,
  • unqualified,
  • undeviating,
  • considerate,
  • superior,
  • persevering,
  • persistent,
  • steadfast,
  • comprehensive,
  • involved,
  • official,
  • serene,
  • unchanging,
  • customary,
  • complicated,
  • prudent,
  • discriminative,
  • fuddy-duddy,
  • narrow,
  • attentive,
  • deferential,
  • dignified,
  • high-principled,
  • honourable,
  • unswerving,
  • cool,
  • Finicking,
  • close,
  • safe,
  • dispassionate,
  • fixed,
  • sound,
  • censorious,
  • right-minded,
  • reliable,
  • exquisite,
  • straight,
  • perfectionist,
  • patient,
  • hard-working,
  • willing,
  • tireless,
  • studious,
  • established,
  • flexible,
  • sure,
  • conforming,
  • obsessive,
  • acute.