# skrupulös

skrupulös is a German adjective meaning “overcautious”. Forms: skrupulöser, am skrupulösesten.

## Forms

- Comparative: skrupulöser
- Superlative: am skrupulösesten

## In other languages

- Русский: скрупулёзный, дотошный, педантичный

## Meanings

1. _formal_ overcautious, scrupulous (anxiously concerned with avoiding mistakes; full of scruples and reservations)
   - Dambach warnt davor, so ausgiebig, verwickelt und skrupulös zu beichten, daß der Beichtvater dessen überdrüssig oder selber skrupulös wird. — Dambach warns against confessing so extensively, convolutedly, and scrupulously that the confessor grows weary of it or becomes scrupulous himself.
2. _formal_ fastidious, meticulous (overly precise, pedantically correct)

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