different between metic vs conscientious

English

Etymology

From Late Latin metycus (also metoecus), from Ancient Greek ???????? (métoikos, “foreigner, metic”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?t?k/
• (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?m?t?k/, [?m???k]
• (intervocalic alveolar flapping) Homophone: medic
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Noun

metic (plural metics)

1. (historical) In Ancient Greek city-states, a resident alien who did not have the rights of a citizen and who paid a tax for the right to live there.

Translations

Further reading

metic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin c?nscienti?sus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n?i??n??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?n?i??n??s/

Adjective

conscientious (comparative more conscientious, superlative most conscientious)

1. Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance.

2. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).

Antonyms

• capricious
• impulsive

Derived terms

• conscientiously
• conscientiousness
• conscientious objector

Related terms

• conscience

Translations

Further reading

• conscientious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• conscientious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “vigilance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.