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English
Etymology
From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin cōnscientiōsus.
Its English equivalent could possibly be analysed as conscient + -ous; More at conscience.
Pronunciation
Adjective
conscientious (comparative more conscientious, superlative most conscientious)
- Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance.
He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.
- 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 people.
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Translations
thorough, careful, or vigilant
- Bulgarian: добросъвестен (bg) (dobrosǎvesten)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 认真的, 投入的
- Czech: svědomitý
- Danish: samvittighedsfuld, pligtopfyldende
- Dutch: consciëntieus (nl), nauwgezet (nl), plichtsbewust (nl), zorgvuldig (nl)
- Esperanto: konscienca
- Finnish: tunnollinen (fi), tunnontarkka
- French: consciencieux (fr)
- German: gewissenhaft (de)
- Greek: ευσυνείδητος (el) (efsyneíditos)
- Ancient: εὐσυνείδητος (eusuneídētos)
- Hungarian: lelkiismeretes (hu)
- Icelandic: samviskusamur
- Italian: coscienzioso (it)
- Latin: pius (la)
- Latvian: apzinīgi
- Maori: urupū
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: samvittighetsfull
- Nynorsk: samvitsfull
- Persian: باوجدان (fa) (bâvojdân), وظیفهشناس (vazife-šenâs)
- Polish: skrupulatny (pl), sumienny (pl)
- Portuguese: consciencioso (pt)
- Romanian: conștiincios (ro)
- Russian: добросо́вестный (ru) (dobrosóvestnyj), созна́тельный (ru) (soznátelʹnyj), че́стный (ru) (čéstnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (Ekavian) са́вестан, (Ijekavian) са́вјестан
- Roman: (Ekavian) sávestan (sh), (Ijekavian) sávjestan (sh)
- Spanish: concienzudo (es)
- Swedish: samvetsgrann (sv), plikttrogen (sv)
- Ukrainian: сумлі́нний (sumlínnyj), добросо́вісний (dobrosóvisnyj)
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Further reading
- “conscientious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “conscientious”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “vigilance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.