Meticulous \muh-TIK-yuh-luhs\ (adjective) - Extremely or excessively careful about details.
"Starling was an efficient housekeeper, but not a meticulous one. Her side of the duplex was clean and she could find everything, but stuff tended to pile up..." -- Thomas Harris, 'Hannibal'
Meticulous ultimately derives from Latin meticulosus "fearful" (from metus, "fear"). The present sense stems from French méticuleux "overscrupulous." In present day English, the word usually carries a more positive connotation and is synonymous with precise and punctilious.
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