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Perceptive vs Meticulous - What's the difference?

perceptive | meticulous |

As adjectives the difference between perceptive and meticulous

is that perceptive is having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition while meticulous is (archaic) timid, fearful, overly cautious.

perceptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition
  • He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    meticulous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
  • Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1943, author=
  • , 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * careful, precise, painstaking, rigorous, scrupulous * See also

    Antonyms

    * sloppy, careless, slapdash

    Derived terms

    * meticulosity, meticulousness