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English Dictionary: conscientious	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
conscientious adj characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details" Synonym(s): conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice" Antonym(s): unconscientious
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conscientious \Con`scien"tious\, a. [Cf. F. consciencieux, LL. conscientiosus.] 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.