Definition of CONSCIENTIOUS

conscientious

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • characterized by extreme care and great effort
    • "conscientious application to the work at hand"

Adjective

  • guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong
    • "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"

Adj

  • Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.
  • Influenced by conscience; principled; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).

Origin / Etymology

From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin cōnscientiōsus. Its English equivalent could possibly be analyzed as conscient + -ous. See more at conscience.

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