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Scrupulous vs Scrutinise - What's the difference?

scrupulous | scrutinise |

As an adjective scrupulous

is exactly and carefully conducted.

As a verb scrutinise is

to examine something with great care.

scrupulous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exactly and carefully conducted.
    • He is scrupulous in his finances.
  • Having scruples or compunctions.
    • He is a scrupulous businessman and always acts in the best interest of his company.
  • Precise; exact or strict

    • Synonyms

    * meticulous, painstaking * worried * ethical, fair-minded, honourable, just, moral, righteous * See also

    Antonyms

    * unscrupulous

    Related terms

    * scrupulously * scrupulousness

    scrutinise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * scrutinize

    Verb

    (scrutinis)
  • To examine something with great care.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

    • Anagrams

    * British English forms