Scrupulous

Definitions: Scrupulous

Scrupulous

Adjective

1. Having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance".

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

Date "scrupulous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Scrupulous \Scru"pu*lous\, adjective. [Latin expression scrupulosus: compare to the French expression scrupuleux.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Scrupulous

Synonyms: conscientious (adj), painstaking (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: unscrupulous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Care	Tidy; (orderly), (clean); accurate; (exact); scrupulous; (conscientious); cavendo tutus; (safe).
Fastidiousness	Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical.
Incredulity	Adjective: incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible; hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe; suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical;
Probity	Conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled, high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike.
Truth	Exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so; strict, severe; close; (similar); literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous; (conscientious); religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut.
Unwillingness	Adjective: unwilling; not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content; adverse; (opposed); laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to; indifferent; scrupulous; squeamish; (fastidious); repugnant; (dislike); restiff, restive; demurring; Verb: unconsenting; (refusing); involuntary.
Veracity	Adjective: truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous; (honorable); sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling; (dissemble; ); guileless, pure; truth-loving; unperjured; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous; (artless); undisguised; (real).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Scrupulous

English words defined with "scrupulous": formalism ♦ Overscrupulous ♦ religious ♦ Squesy. (references)

Etymologies containing "scrupulous": Squesy. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown)

Uh, I mean shut up, you scrupulous ignoramus! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Scrupulous Meanness: A Study of Joyce's Early Work (reference) Eviction Book for California: A Handy Manual for Scrupulous Landlords and Landladies Who Do Their Own Evictions (Eviction Book for California, 9th ed (reference) Helps for the Scrupulous (reference) Hesitant Wolf and Scrupulous Fox: Fables Selected from World Literature (reference) Landlording: A Handy Manual for Scrupulous Landlords and Landladies Who Do It Themselves (Landlording, 9th Ed) (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	Drumming; drum; beating; methodical; analytical; businesslike; careful; deliberate; disciplined; exact; fixed; framed; methodic; methodized; meticulous; neat; ordered; orderly; planned; precise; regular; scrupulous; set up; structured; systematic; tidy; t.
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Author	Quotation
Thomas Jefferson	Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	This power, whilst employed for the benefit of the community, and suitably to the trust and ends of the government, is undoubted prerogative, and never is questioned: for the people are very seldom or never scrupulous or nice in the point; they are far from examining prerogative, whilst it is in any tolerable degree employed for the use it was meant, that is, for the good of the people, and not manifestly against it: but if there comes to be a question between the executive power and the people, about a thing claimed as a prerogative; the tendency of the exercise of such prerogative to the good or hurt of the people, will easily decide that question. (Second Treatise of Government)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with one another Agree to this Covenant of the League of Nations. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	I took her up with scrupulous care, and her little arm was at once clasped trustfully round my neck.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	His confession became a channel for the escape of scrupulous and unrepented imperfections.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	But as to counts, marquesses, dukes, earls, and the like, I was not so scrupulous.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Under such an arrangement every branch of this important service would assume a more simple and precise character, its efficiency would be increased, and scrupulous economy in the expenditure of public money promoted.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Scrupulous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scrupulous" is used about 136 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	136	27,260

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "scrupulous": over-scrupulous.
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Language		Translations for "scrupulous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		angsvallig (accurate). (various references)

Albanian		i përpiktë (exact, neat, orderly, painstaking, precise, punctilious, right), i ndershëm (clean, clean-living, disinterested, fair, fair and square, fair dealing, guileless, honest, honorable, honourable, incorrupt, on the level, sportsmanlike, stainless, straightforward, whole-souled), i ndërgjegjshëm (alive, conscientious, mindful, ware). (various references)

Arabic		‏كثير الشكوك, ‏كثي الوسواس, ‏مدقق (exact, inspected, investigated, pedantic, scanned, scrutinized), ‏دقيق (accurate, careful, close, delicate, elaborate, exact, express, farina, fine, flour, inappreciable, infinitesimal, intangible, just, keen, mathematical, meal, nearness, nice, painstaking, particular, pernickety, precise, punctilious, punctual, rigorous, searching, sharp, sound, specific, straightforward, strict, ticklish, tiny, touchy, tricky, true, veracious). (various references)

Bulgarian		съвестен (conscientious), съзнателен (advised, conscious, deliberate, intentional, knowing, premeditated, sentient, voluntary), щателен (minute, narrow, painstaking, searching, severe), коректен (correct, precise, regular), внимателен (affable, alert, attentive, careful, cautious, circumspect, considerate, delicate, guarded, heedful, intent, nice, precautious, thoughtful, ware, wary, watchful), педантично честен, педантично коректен, добросъвестен (conscientious, earnest, upright). (various references)

Chinese		一丝不苟. (various references)

Czech		svìdomitý (conscientious, dutiful, religious, thorough), puntièkářský (hairsplitting, meticulous, pedantic, precise, priggish, punctilious), poctivost (honesty, rightness). (various references)

Dutch		scrupuleus (accurate), angstvallig (accurate). (various references)

Esperanto		skrupula. (various references)

Farsi		محتاط (Cautious, Chary, Considerate, Demure, Gingerly), ناشی ازوسواس یادقت زیاد, وسواسی (Meticulous, Morose, Queasy, Whimsical). (various references)

Finnish		tunnontarkka (conscientious), tunnonrauha (conscientious). (various references)

French		scrupuleux, méticuleux. (various references)

Frisian		skrutel (accurate). (various references)

German		skrupulös (accurate). (various references)

Greek		ευσυνείδητοσ (conscientious, conscionable, self conscious), λεπτολόγοσ (caviller, discriminating, finicky, meticulous, particular, pernickety, prim, squeamish), ακριβολόγοσ (nice, precisian, precisionist, punctilious, purist). (various references)

Hebrew		מוקפ�" (meticulous), �"ק�"ק� י (meticulous, prim, punctilious), בעל מצפון (conscientious). (various references)

Hungarian		lelkiismeretes (conscientious, earnest, painstaking, religious), aggályoskodó (meticulous, religious). (various references)

Indonesian		cermat (accurate, careful, neat, precise). (various references)

Italian		scrupoloso (nice, punctilious), meticoloso (captious, carping, correct, fastidious, finickly, fussy, meticulous, nagging, particular, pedantic, punctilious), coscienzioso (conscientious, earnest, painstaking). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		謹直 (conscientious), 綿密 (careful, detailed, minute, thorough), 細心 (careful, discrete, prudent), 入念 (careful, elaborate), 周密 (careful, meticulous), 周到 (careful, meticulous), 念入り (careful, conscientious, thorough). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅうみつ (careful, meticulous), しゅうとう (careful, meticulous), ね�"いり (careful, conscientious, thorough), き�"ちょく (conscientious), さいし�" (careful, discrete, enshrined deity, latest, newest, prudent, reexamination, retrial, review), にゅうね�" (careful, elaborate), め�"みつ (careful, detailed, minute, thorough). (various references)

Korean		꼼꼼한. (various references)

Manx		mynchooishagh (particular, pernickety, petty-minded, punctilious), imneagh (anxious, concerned, nervous, uneasy, worried), cruinn (accurate, circular, circumstantial, compact, consummate, detailed, exact, round, spherical, strict, unambigous). (various references)

Pig Latin		upulousscray

Portuguese		minucioso (curious, hairspray, minute, narrow, niggling, particular, perorate, rigorous, searching, thorough), meticuloso (careful, finical, finicky, meticulous, painstaking, picnic, punctilious, thorough), exato (accurate, anchored, clean-cut, clean-fingered, clock-work, close, correct, definite, determinate, even, exact, faithfully, incorrupt, just a minute please, literal, mathematical, pinpoint, precise, precision, prompt, proper, punctual, rigourous, sharp, stringent, trustworthy, truthful, unerring, well-defined), escrupuloso (believer, clean-cut, clock-work, precisely, preclude, well-defined), cuidadoso (accurate, attentive, careful, chary, close, convinced, earnest, exact, gingerly, heedful, mature, metier, mindful, painstaking, regardful, safe, solicitous, thorough, tidy, tiptoe), consciencioso (believer, conscientious, thoroughgoing). (various references)

Romanian		susceptibil (difficult, huffish, in, irascible, petulaht, sensitive, spiky, susceptible, testy, ticklish, touchy), supãrãcios (cantankerous, cross-grained, huffish, huffy, humoursome, irascible, irritable, liveried, peevish, pettish, short tempered, sour, testy, tetchy, touchy), sensibil (appreciably, considerable, considerably, delicate, feeling, impressible, impressionable, marked, noticeably, painful, palpable, passible, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, tangible, tender, thin-skinned, touchy), scrupulos (careful, conscientious, finical, nice, particular, punctilious, qualmish, queasy, religious, scrupulously, thorough), migãlos (careful, finical, niggling, painstaking, painstakingly, precise, scrupulously), meticulos (carefully, curious, meticulous, meticulously), conştiincios (careful, conscientious, conscientiously, duteous, dutiful, scrupulously, thorough), cinstit (above board, candid, chaste, clean-fingered, correctly, fair, foursquare, gentlemanlike, guileless, honest, honestly, honest-minded, honorable, honourable, mensurable, on the level, on the up and up, open, reliable, reputable, respectable, righteous, simple, sincere, sincerely, sporting, sportsmanlike, Square, straightforward, true, trustful, truthful, unfeigned, upright, venerable, virtuous). (various references)

Russian		скрупулезный, щепетильный (punctilious, squeamish, stuffy), добросовестный (bona fide, conscientious, neighborly, religious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skrupulozan, pun obzira. (various references)

Spanish		escrupuloso (accurate, compunctious, delicate, qualmish, queasy, tender), meticuloso (accurate, fussy, meticulous, precise, thorough). (various references)

Swedish		samvetsgrann (bona fide, conscientious, religious). (various references)

Turkish		vicdanlı (conscientious), titiz (careful, choosy, cleanly, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, exact, exacting, exigent, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hypercritical, jealous, jealous of, meticulous, niggling, niminy-piminy, particular, peevish, pernickety, picky, rigorous, squeamish, touchy), evhamlı (gun-shy, neurotic), dikkatli (argus-eyed, assiduous, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, gingerly, heedful, intense, intent, mindful, particular, regardful, rigorous, sleepless, solicitous, studious, thoughtful, wary, watchful), adil (equitable, even handed, fair, fair-minded, impartial, just, lawful, righteous, right-minded), özenli (assiduous, attentive, careful, elaborate, heedful, jealous, painstaking, regardful, thoughtful). (various references)

Ukranian		скрупульозний (nice, punctilious, thorough), чесний (above board, bona fide, clean-fingered, clean-handed, conscientious, fair, fair dealing, faithful, honest, honorable, honourable, sincere, single minded, stainless, straight, straightforward, upright, white-handed), бездоганний (blameless, faultless, flawless, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, paragon, pure, stainless, taintless, thoroughbred, unexceptionable, unimpeachable), делікатний (kid glove, pernickety, persnickety, queasy, slippery, ticklish). (various references)

Vietnamese		quá tỉ mỉ (overelaborate), ngại ngùng; quá thận trọng, đắn đo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "scrupulous": scrupulously, scrupulousness, scrupulousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "scrupulous": overscrupulous, unscrupulous. (additional references)
	Words containing "scrupulous": unscrupulously, unscrupulousness, unscrupulousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Scrupulous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scripulum, scruplous, scrupluous, scruptulous, scrupules, scrupulosis, scrupulours, scrupulus, scrupuous, scurpulous, srupulous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "scrupulous" (pronounced skruw"pyulus)
10	s k r uw" p y u l u s	unscrupulous.
6	-p y u l u s	populace, populous.
5	-y u l u s	calculus, fabulous, meticulous, miraculous, nebulous, ridiculous, stimulus, tremulous.
4	-u l u s	acropolis, anomalous, Carolus, frivolous, garrulous, incredulous, libelous, marvelous, megalopolis, merciless, metropolis, nautilus, necropolis, Oxalis, pendulous, perilous, querulous, scandalous, scurrilous, syphilis, tantalus.
3	-l u s	accomplice, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, callous, callus, careless, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, fruitless, Gallus, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, meaningless, meatless, mindless, motherless, motionless, nameless, necklace, needless, odorless, overzealous, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, penniless, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scoreless, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stylus, surplus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-l-o-p-r-s-s-u-u-u"
	-3 letters: cuprous, surplus, upcurls.
	-4 letters: clours, corpus, croups, lupous, oculus, scours, sculps, slurps, sulcus, upcurl, usurps.
	-5 letters: clops, clour, corps, coups, crops, cross, croup, curls, cusps, cusso, locus, loups, lours, lupus, lusus, pours, pross, purls, roups, scops, scour, sculp, scups, slops, slurp, slurs, solus, sorus, souls, soups, sours, spurs, sulus, usurp.
	Words containing the letters "c-l-o-p-r-s-s-u-u-u"
	+2 letters: groupuscules, scrupulously, unscrupulous.
	+4 letters: overscrupulous, scrupulousness, unscrupulously.
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