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adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"

conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

cautious

adj. showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"

prudent

adj. careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight"

precise

adj. sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"

priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian

adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

academic, donnish, pedantic

adj. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

selective

adj. characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the school was very selective in its admissions"

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unfastidious

adj. marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness; "unfastidious in her dress"

inefficient

adj. not producing desired results; wasteful; "an inefficient campaign against drugs"; "outdated and inefficient design and methods"

haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy

adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

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