Adjective: conscientious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more conscientious |
| Superlative | most conscientious |
Sample Sentences
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He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.
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The advice of wise and conscientious people.
Adjectives inflected like conscientious
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin cōnscientiōsus. Its English equivalent could possibly be analyzed as conscient + -ous. See more at conscience.