Meticulous vs Lenient - What's the difference?
meticulous | lenient |
(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
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, passage=The meticulous care with which the operation in Sicily was planned has paid dividends. Our casualties in men, in ships and materiel have been low—in fact, far below our estimate.}}
Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
As adjectives the difference between meticulous and lenient
is that meticulous is (archaic) timid, fearful, overly cautious while lenient is lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.As a noun lenient is
(medicine) a lenitive; an emollient.meticulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* careful, precise, painstaking, rigorous, scrupulous * See alsoAntonyms
* sloppy, careless, slapdashDerived terms
* meticulosity, meticulousnessExternal links
* *lenient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The standard is fairly lenient , so use your discretion.
- But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.