Meaning of CONSCIENTIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | `kânshee'enshus
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- [adj] characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"
- [adj] guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"
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| | Synonyms: | | careful, moral, painstaking, scrupulous |
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| | Antonyms: | | unconscientious | | |
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| | Definition: | | \Con`sci*en"tious\, a. [Cf. F. consciencieux, LL.
conscientiosus.]
1. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to
the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed
rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person.
The advice of wise and conscientious men.
--Prescott.
2. Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the
dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.
A holy and conscientious course. --Abp.
Tillotson.
Syn: Scrupulous; exact; faithful; just; upright.
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