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Punctilious vs Outward - What's the difference?

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Punctilious is a related term of outward.


As adjectives the difference between punctilious and outward

is that punctilious is strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions while outward is outer; located towards the outside.

As an adverb outward is

towards the outside; away from the centre.

As a verb outward is

(obsolete|rare) to ward off; to keep out.

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

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    outward

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • outer; located towards the outside
  • visible, noticeable
    • By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.
  • Tending to the exterior or outside.
  • * Dryden
    • The fire will force its outward way.
  • (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
    • an outward war
    (Hayward)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Towards the outside; away from the centre.
  • :We are outward bound.
  • *Shakespeare
  • *:The wrong side may be turned outward .
  • (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly.
  • *:
  • *:ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the kny?tes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren
    • Synonyms
    * outwards
    Derived terms
    * outwardness

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
    • Ne any armour could his dint out-ward ; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.

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