most 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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Canada is one of the most methodical teams at the tournament.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2022

Mr. Anderson also came to the defense of Mr. Strzok, calling him “one of the most methodical, most meticulous, hard-working counterintelligence experts in the entire United States intelligence community.”

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2017

It’s a spurt here, a great individual performance there, the briefest glimpse, the longest stare, a most methodical march befitting the kind of year it has been for all the top-tier teams.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2016

Speaking of cops, the police procedural, such as the Law & Order or CSI franchises, is the most methodical, systematic, even scientific attempt to restore order by gaining knowledge.

From Time • Oct. 5, 2015

Then ensued the slow and gradual conquest of the frozen bed to a tolerable warmth, a result attained only by clever strategic combinations of bedclothes and the most methodical policy.

From The Cold Snap 1898 by Bellamy, Edward