Conscientious
[,kɒnʃɪ'enʃəs] or ['kɑnʃɪ'ɛnʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by extreme care and great effort; 'conscientious application to the work at hand'; 'painstaking research'; 'scrupulous attention to details' .
(adj.) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; 'a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice' .
Checker: Max--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.
Edited by Julius
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Scrupulous, upright, honest, just, exact, honorable, fair, uncorrupt, incorruptible, ingenuous, high-minded, straightforward.
Edited by Daisy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Scrupulous, exact, equitable, strict, upright, highprincipled
ANT:Unscrupulous, lax, unprincipled, reprobate, unconscientious
Typist: Louis
Examples
- He was brave and conscientious, and commanded the respect of all who knew him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You can't think how it elevates him in my opinion, to know for certain that he's really conscientious! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You are a conscientious man, Mr. Garth--a man, I trust, who feels himself accountable to God. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was brave and conscientious. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Perhaps he has conscientious scruples founded on his own unfitness, said Dorothea, who was interesting herself in finding a favorable explanation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And I know that it belongs to your conscientious nature to try to become worthy of it, my dear Frederick, and to try to adorn it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Caroline, I fancy, is the soul of conscientious punctuality and nice exactitude. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Really conscientious, now? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Then he's not--but of course he can't be, if he's really conscientious. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I know you are wise; I feel you are benevolent; I believe you are conscientious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Conscientious scruples about slavery were more free, therefore, to develop and flourish in the northern atmosphere. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He behaved in the most conscientious manner. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- A sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative man, Mr Flintwinch, must be that, or nothing! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Now the conscientious Twemlow, knowing what he had done to thwart the gracious Fledgeby, was particularly disconcerted by this encounter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This conscientious man is a Quaker. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They should be exempted like conscientious objectors. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But conscientious objectors weren't exempted in this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I hope I should not have been influenced myself in a wrong way, and I am sure my father was too conscientious to have allowed it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Mrs. Peniston, who was a conscientious woman, had forwarded them all to Bellomont. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Conscientious, is he? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Really conscientious? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Have you noticed that he has been less conscientious than usual in following up my case or your mother's? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Then we observe that he is just, that he always speaks the truth, that he is conscientious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She is conscientious, and I have no fear of her treating him unkindly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Typist: Louis