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Adjective: conscientious  `kónshee'enshus
  1. Characterized by extreme care and great effort
    "conscientious application to the work at hand"
    - painstaking, scrupulous
     
  2. Guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong
    "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"

See also: careful, conscience, conscientiously, conscientiousness

Antonym: unconscientious

Encyclopedia: Conscientious

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