Straitlaced vs Punctilious - What's the difference?
straitlaced | punctilious | Related terms |
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
Straitlaced is a related term of punctilious.
As adjectives the difference between straitlaced and punctilious
is that straitlaced is while punctilious is strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.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.