conscientious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite characterized by extreme care and great effort
    scrupulous; painstaking.
    • conscientious application to the work at hand
    • painstaking research
    • scrupulous attention to details
  2. adjective guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong
    • a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice

WordNet


Con`sci*en"tious adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. consciencieux, LL. conscientiosus.
Definitions
  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.
    The advice of wise and conscientious men. Prescott.
  2. Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.
    A holy and conscientious course. Abp. Tillotson.
    Syn. -- Scrupulous; exact; faithful; just; upright.

Webster 1913