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# scrupulous

«scrupulous» in Mova's school dictionary: **very careful to do what is right and fair** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more scrupulous, most scrupulous)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Scrupulous means very careful to do what is right and fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrupulous/#m1)

2) Scrupulous means very careful and exact about small details. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrupulous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a person who is careless about right and wrong, or a fountain that is kept with the most scrupulous care

### examples

- The judge was scrupulous and fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrupulous/#x1)
- She kept scrupulous records of every penny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrupulous/#x2)
- The cook was scrupulous about clean hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrupulous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scrupulous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrupulous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.