Conscientious definition
Showing care and precision; painstaking.
adjective
Thorough and assiduous.
A conscientious worker; a conscientious effort to comply with the regulations.
adjective
Guided by or in accordance with the dictates of conscience; principled.
A conscientious decision to speak out about injustice.
adjective
Conscientious is defined as acting in a way that is very thorough and careful.
An example of conscientious is measuring the liquid in each test tube of an experiment to be perfectly equal.
adjective
Governed by, or made or done according to, what one knows is right; scrupulous; honest.
adjective
The definition of conscientious is following what you know to be right or true.
An example of conscientious is making a moral decision after lots of research and consideration.
adjective
Origin of conscientious
- Obsolete French conscientieux from Medieval Latin cōnscientiōsus from Latin cōnscientia conscience conscience
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle French conscientieux
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