meticuleus
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meː.ti.kyˈløːs/, [me.ti.kyˈløːs] (Belgium), [me.ti.kyˈløʏ̯s] (Netherlands)
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Adjective
meticuleus (comparative meticuleuzer, superlative meest meticuleus or meticuleust)
Declension
| Declension of meticuleus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | meticuleus | |||
| inflected | meticuleuze | |||
| comparative | meticuleuzer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | meticuleus | meticuleuzer | het meticuleust het meticuleuste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | meticuleuze | meticuleuzere | meticuleuste |
| n. sing. | meticuleus | meticuleuzer | meticuleuste | |
| plural | meticuleuze | meticuleuzere | meticuleuste | |
| definite | meticuleuze | meticuleuzere | meticuleuste | |
| partitive | meticuleus | meticuleuzers | — | |
Synonyms
- nauwkeurig, angstvallig, pietepeuterig