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{"id": "meticulous", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "meticulous", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "meticulousness", "text": "meticulousness"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["mid 16th century (in the sense \u2018fearful or timid\u2019): from Latin meticulosus, from metus \u2018fear\u2019. The word came to mean \u2018overcareful about detail\u2019, hence the current sense (early 19th century)"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/meticulous_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "m\u026a\u02c8t\u026akj\u028al\u0259s"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise"], "examples": [{"text": "the designs are hand-glazed with meticulous care"}, {"text": "he had always been so meticulous about his appearance"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0637440.005", "shortDefinitions": ["showing great attention to detail"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "careful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "conscientious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "diligent"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ultra-careful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "scrupulous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "punctilious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "painstaking"}, {"language": "en", "text": "demanding"}, {"language": "en", "text": "exacting"}, {"language": "en", "text": "accurate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "correct"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "meticulous", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0009402.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "meticulous"}], "type": "headword", "word": "meticulous"}], "word": "meticulous"}
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