- characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"
- guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"
- (conscientiously) scrupulously: with extreme conscientiousness; "he came religiously every morning at 8 o'clock"
- Thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well
- (Conscientiousness) responsibility, dependability, persistency and achievement orientation
- (Conscientiousness) A mental factor that, in dependence upon effort, cherishes what is virtuous and guards the mind from delusion and non-virtue. See Meaningful to Behold and Understanding the Mind.
- (Conscientiousness) This feature, highlighted in almost all accounts of civil disobedience, points to the seriousness, sincerity and moral conviction with which civil disobedients breach the law. ...
- (Conscientiousness) the tendency to be organized, careful, and disciplined vs. disorganized, careless, and impulsive.
- doing something carefully, because you want to do it well: "She's a conscientious student and always does her homework."
- hardworking, thorough, meticulous
- Principled; thorough