Word Meanings - OVERSCRUPULOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Scrupulous to excess.

Related words: (words related to OVERSCRUPULOUS)

• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• SCRUPULOUS
  1. Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong. Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous. Hooker. 2. Careful;
• UNSCRUPULOUS
  Not scrupulous; unprincipled. -- Un*scru"pu*lous*ly, adv. -- Un*scru"pu*lous*ness, n.
• OVERSCRUPULOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being overscrupulous; excess of scrupulousness.
• OVERSCRUPULOUS
  Scrupulous to excess.