adj. Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
adj. Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Attentive to punctilios; very nice or precise in behavior, ceremony, or intercourse; exact (sometimes, to excess) in the observance of rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
Synonyms Particular, precise, scrupulous.
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adj. marked by precise accordance with details
Word Usage
"It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ( "attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root word as punctuation."