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punctual a. 嚴格守時的;正確的,精確的;點狀的 嚴格守時的;正確的,精確的;點狀的 punctual adj 1: acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed; " she expected guests to be punctual at meals"; " he is not a particularly punctual person"; " punctual payment" [ ant: { unpunctual}] Punctual \ Punc" tu* al\, a. [ F. ponctuel ( cf. Sp. puntual, It. puntuale), from L. punctum point. See { Point}.] 1. Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended. [ R.] " This punctual spot." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] The theory of the punctual existence of the soul. -- Krauth. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Observant of nice points; punctilious; precise. [ 1913 Webster] Punctual to tediousness in all that he relates. -- Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster] So much on punctual niceties they stand. -- C. Pitt. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular or an appointed time; precise; prompt; as, a punctual man; a punctual payment. " The race of the undeviating and punctual sun." -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] These sharp strokes [ of a pendulum], with their inexorably steady intersections, so agree with our successive thoughts that they seem like the punctual stops counting off our very souls into the past. -- J. Martineau. [ 1913 Webster] 74 Moby Thesaurus words for " punctual": accurate, active, alert, apt, attentive, careful, close, compliant, conforming, conscientious, conscionable, constant, correct, critical, decisive, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, duteous, dutiful, exact, exacting, exigent, expeditious, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, heedful, immediate, instant, instantaneous, loyal, meticulous, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, observant, on the dot, on time, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, practicing, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, prompt, punctilious, quick, ready, refined, regardful, religious, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, speedy, strict, subtle, summary, swift, tender- conscienced, timely, true
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