meticuloso
Portuguese, adjective/me.t͡ʃi.kuˈlo.zu/
meticuloso is spelled M-E-T-I-C-U-L-O-S-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 36,381st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meticuloso is a Portuguese adjective meaning “meticulous, rigorous, scrupulous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “minucioso”.
What does meticuloso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
meticulous, rigorous, scrupulous
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. minucioso 2. escrupuloso 3. receoso 4. medroso, tímido
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of meticuloso
- meticulosa feminine
- meticulosos masculine plural
- meticulosas feminine plural
- mais meticuloso comparative
- o mais meticuloso superlative
- meticulosíssimo superlative
- metaphonic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce meticuloso?
- Brazil /me.t͡ʃi.kuˈlo.zu/
- Portugal /mɨ.ti.kuˈlo.zu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to meticuloso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is meticuloso in Portuguese?
meticuloso appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).