adj.
- diligent, thorough, and attentive to details.
- very concerned to avoid doing wrong.
Derivative
- scrupulosity n.
- scrupulously adv.
- scrupulousness n.
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘troubled with doubts’): from Fr. scrupuleux or L. scrupulosus, from scrupulus (see scruple).
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