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Definition
careful to do what is right—especially to perform duties in a thorough manner (as when guided by conscience)- She is conscientious in the lab.
conscientious = careful and thorough
- I try to hire employees who are conscientious.
- Gatsby got himself into a shadow and, while Daisy and I talked, looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with tense, unhappy eyes.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- I cannot keep count of them, though I have tried conscientiously.Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper
- Slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge-shaped strips of fish.Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
- Some of the faculty are pretty conscientious.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- I took dinner usually at the Yale Club — for some reason it was the gloomiest event of my day — and then I went up-stairs to the library and studied investments and securities for a conscientious hour.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise — she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression — then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- And Clyde, feeling how strange it was that the Reverend McMillan could not conscientiously bring himself to do more than that for him.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- That he was a good man" An honest, conscientious man?Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
- Conscientiously, Iona sprinkled flour over the next layer of sliced potatoes.Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
- She seemed like such a conscientious sort....Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
- It broke her heart to see her mother trying so hard, being so conscientious, so determined to be valuable.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- The prosecutor was Jim Rowland from third battalion, an extraordinarily bright and conscientious cadet who had been accepted at Harvard Law School.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- You're so conscientious,' he said, his voice muffled by my sweater, which he was still trying to ease off.Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
- It wasn't his fault that an accident now made the deal possible and not his own conscientious efforts.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
- He wrote conscientiously each item of his distinctions; his name found its way back more than once to the indulgent Altamont papers.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- I am not sure that as a conscientious detective my first duty is not to arrest the whole household.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- My conscientious objection to most homework had put my grades in the toilet, but the only class I had outright flunked was precalc.Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
- "That's very conscientious of you."Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
conscientious = careful to do what is right
conscientiously = with a desire to do what was right
conscientiously = with care
conscientiously = with care
conscientious = characterized by extreme care and great effort
conscientious = careful performance of duties
conscientious = wanting to be proper