HOW TO PRONOUNCE
conscientious
/ˌkɑnʃiˈɛnʃəs/
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Hear sh in two places.
The written sci and the later ti both have an sh sound here. The main stress sits on the vowel between them, not on the first syllable.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“He is a conscientious student.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does conscientious mean?
adjective
- Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.
- Influenced by conscience; principled; 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).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌkɑnʃiˈɛnʃəs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Speech after speech, pamphlet after pamphlet, editorial after editorial, sermon after sermon, soon lashed the conscientious Scotch people into a perfect furore.
But here it must be noted that Parker's effort was powerfully aided by the conscientious utterances of some of his foremost opponents.
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Though carried to a great distance, into another house, and subjected to a conscientious series of revolutions, the Cat always came back.
Upright, honourable, capable, and conscientious in the extreme -- such is the memory we retain of Frederick A. Cook from those days.
Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.”