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scrupulously en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈskɹuːpjʊləsli/
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Etymology

From scrupulous + -ly, from Middle French scrupuleux, from Latin scrūpulōsus (“careful, scrupulous”), from scrūpulus (“anxiety, uneasiness”), diminutive from scrūpus (“sharp stone; anxiety”) + -ulus.

Meanings

1. In a careful manner, with scruple; done with careful attention to detail.
   • Stock is generally well maintained, and the locomotives and railcars are kept scrupulously clean. The former are painted an unrelieved black, and the latter blue and cream, while the coaches are grey. 1955 May 14, H. P. White, “The Togoland Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:
   • They were frightened when he threatened this, and promised to obey him scrupulously if he would but promise not to desert them. 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 140:
   • Some of them have, in fact, given them a theoretical elaboration which for subtlety, refinement, and elegance need make no apologies to the older economics, and which remains faithful to older theorizing in at least one respect, that the tradition of unintelligibility to the layman is scrupulously observed. 1958, Jacob Viner, The Long View and the Short, page 112:
   • The citizens of India and Japan have elected nationalist leaders who many say they believe champion a more closed form of identity than their predecessors. While these leaders have observed the principles of liberalism more scrupulously than the Orbáns or Erdogans of the world, their critics suspect that they are quietly fostering intolerance among their supporters. 2016 December 6, Francis Fukuyama, “The Dangers of Disruption”, in The New York Times:

Forms

Relateds

scruple · scrupulous · scrupulousness

Synonyms

meticulously (in a careful manner) · conscientiously (in a careful manner) · carefully (in a careful manner)

Translations (9)

pl skrupulatnie (in a careful manner) · fr scrupuleusement (in a careful manner) · ru скрупулёзно (in a careful manner) · ro scrupulos (in a careful manner) · gl escrupulosamente (in a careful manner) · ro în mod scrupulos (in a careful manner) · es escrupulosamente (in a careful manner) · ro cu scrupulozitate (in a careful manner) · ca escrupolosament (in a careful manner)