more methodical

ADJECTIVE

organized, precise

Synonyms

WEAK

all together analytical businesslike by the book by the numbers careful cut-and-dried deliberate disciplined efficient exact fixed framed in a groove logical methodized meticulous neat ordered orderly painstaking planned regular scrupulous set-up structured systematic tidy together well-regulated

Antonyms

WEAK

confused disorderly disorganized imprecise unmethodical/unmethodic

ADJECTIVE

organized

Synonyms

STRONGEST

analytical businesslike careful deliberate disciplined efficient meticulous orderly painstaking precise scrupulous structured systematic

WEAK

all together exact fixed framed grooved logical methodic methodized neat ordered planned regular set up tidy together well-regulated

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless chaotic disorderly disorganized inefficient negligent thoughtless unmethodical unscrupulous unsystematic

Example Sentences

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The approach at Blue Origin, which Bezos founded in 2000, has been much more methodical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

It’s merely under new management: the less colorful but more methodical Russell Vought, director of Trump’s Office of Management and Budget.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

Unlike the impulsive acts of retaliation in "Beef," revenge is more methodical in K-dramas.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

Like Doud, albeit in a more methodical mode, Branson employs patterns to suggest something larger.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022

Fuller was prepared to shake up the city, to overthrow the status quo—but the Urban League took a more methodical, “go slow” approach.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson