meticulous

Preposition: about

• hygiene: And then who can forget Bryson ( our cook ), his food was spectacular and he was meticulous about hygiene.

Modifies a noun

• attention: We can provide a high impact comprehensive clean, with meticulous attention to detail.
• craftsmanship: The dedicated research and meticulous craftsmanship shown by Andrew Winton have resulted in a book that no lover of Burns can resist.
• preparation: I have often written of the need for meticulous preparation in the build up for ultra events.
• planning: Such creative control, of course, requires meticulous planning.
• scholarship: Perhaps it was his own meticulous scholarship which prevented him.
• standard: You can relax in the knowledge that the same meticulous design standards have been built into MPEG IMX Studio Players.

Used with adjective complement

• require: Searching for risk factors in such groups would require meticulous follow up of large cohorts.

Infinitive complement

• exclude: Political debate than meticulous to exclude the difficulty in the atom.

Modifying Another Word

• very: He's very meticulous about picking the right song.
• so: I'm usually so meticulous, and check and re-check all the knots I tie.
• too: In part this is because Interesting Times skirts any too meticulous chronology in its discussion of his own Communism.
• always: An inspired colourist, Lucienne was always meticulous about selecting the colourways for her patterns.
• quite: I have been quite meticulous in recording teh events of teh last 7 weeks.
• usually: Additional evidence that something was amiss comes from Meinertzhagen's usually meticulous diaries.

Preposition: in

• cleanliness: Tho meticulous in personal cleanliness, for example, Darby wore only simple clothing and those to the point of shabbiness.
• everything: She is the tidiest person in the office and very thorough and meticulous in everything she undertakes.