Punctilious vs Sedulous - What's the difference?
punctilious | sedulous |
Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
* 2009 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Semantics: an introduction to meaning in language
Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.
* 2001 Pollan, Michael , The Botany of Desire , Random House, New York, page 135:
* 2010 Paul Routledge , Daily Mirror , 9 March 2010 [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scotland-is-turning-into-another-country-loch-756030]:
As adjectives the difference between punctilious and sedulous
is that punctilious is strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions while sedulous is diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.punctilious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
- Of course, humans do not treat time in such a punctilious fashion.
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*sedulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With the right equipment, an indoor grower could create a utopia for his plants, an artificial habitat more perfect than any in nature, [...]. These sedulous attentions would be wasted on male plants, which are worse than useless in sinsemilla production.
- The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already.