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Punctilious vs Exacting - What's the difference?

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Punctilious is a related term of exacting.


As adjectives the difference between punctilious and exacting

is that punctilious is strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions while exacting is making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.

As a verb exacting is

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punctilious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
    • With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
  • Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
  • * 2009 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Semantics: an introduction to meaning in language
    • Of course, humans do not treat time in such a punctilious fashion.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * punctiliously * punctiliousness

    Related terms

    * point * punctuate * punctual * punctuality * punctuation

    External links

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    exacting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.
  • Requiring precise accuracy

    • Synonyms

    * (excess attention to detail) See also * (careful attention to detail) See also

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * exactingly * exactingness