Qualities

Synonyms for conscientious

The synonym for conscientious recorded in this bank is painstaking, in the sense "characterized by extreme care and great effort". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for conscientious

painstakingadjective, in the sense "characterized by extreme care and great effort"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for conscientious.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

characterized by extreme care and great effort

Conscientious application to the work at hand.

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The true synonym

painstaking

Same sentence, swapped: Painstaking application to the work at hand.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

rigid
obedient
picky

Where conscientious turns up in the game

conscientious is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play conscientious

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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