conscientious

adj 1: characterized by extreme care and great effort;

"conscientious application to the work at hand";

"painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to

details" [syn: {painstaking}, {scrupulous}]

2: guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right

and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about

injustice" [ant: {unconscientious}]