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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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Knight and Bouchier were predictably more methodical - with strike rates of 81.8 and 65.5 - at the crease when they could have shown some fearless aggression.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

“In the ’90s, there was no DNA, so everything had a slower pace and a more methodical way about it,” Sarnoff says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

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

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

“I think we need to be more methodical about this,” he says.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse