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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accurate, active, attentive, careful, cautious, censorious, choicy, choosy, circumspect, close, compliant, conforming, conscionable, constant, correct, critical, deferential, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, diligent, discreet, discriminating, discriminative, duteous, dutiful, ethical, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, fair, faithful, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, heedful, high-minded, honest, honorable, incorruptible, just, loyal, meticulous, mindful, minute, moral, narrow, nice, obedient, observant, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, perfectionistic, picky, politic, practicing, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, priggish, principled, prudent, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic, refined, regardful, religious, respectful, responsible, right, right-minded, righteous, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, serious, strict, subtle, tender-conscienced, thorough, true, upright, upstanding
Dictionary Results for conscientious:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
conscientious
    adj 1: characterized by extreme care and great effort;
           "conscientious application to the work at hand";
           "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"
           [syn: conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous]
    2: guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right
       and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about
       injustice" [ant: unconscientious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Conscientious \Con`sci*en"tious\, a. [Cf. F. consciencieux, LL.
   conscientiosus.]
   1. Influenced by conscience; 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.
      [1913 Webster]

            The advice of wise and conscientious men.
                                                  --Prescott.
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   2. Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the
      dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.
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            A holy and conscientious course.      --Abp.
                                                  Tillotson.

   Syn: Scrupulous; exact; faithful; just; upright.
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