What's the difference between conscientious and enthusiastic?

Conscientious


Definition:

  • (a.) 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.
  • (a.) Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (2) A much more important factor was the well organized program for preparation of the patients, skillfully carried out by a conscientious staff.
  • (3) Four patients died of cirrhosis of the liver: two of them had not taken the drugs conscientiously.
  • (4) • This article was amended on 10 September 2013 to correct the number of conscientious objectors in the first world war from 6,000 to 16,000 and to clarify that conscientious objectors were not executed.
  • (5) For example, more than 40% of the critical incidents pertained to the conscientiousness dimension.
  • (6) Three constructs of TUA were identified: passive fatalistic, egoistic, and conscientious.
  • (7) Consistent and conscientious nursing care and assessments are known to have significant impact on the morbidity and mortality associated with increased intracranial pressure.
  • (8) Anyone who attended one of the many conferences dedicated to his work observed how conscientiously he listened to every paper (whether by a famous thinker or a graduate student), took careful notes, and asked polite but searching questions.
  • (9) Most major institutions now have qualified and credentialed laboratory animal medicine specialists directing their programs, conscientious and responsive animal care and use committees overseeing and evaluating animal welfare, and qualified, well-trained animal care staff and investigators.
  • (10) Their personalities are characterized by conscientiousness, reliability and industriousness.
  • (11) Laboratory experience prior to clinical use is mandatory and takes several months of conscientious application.
  • (12) It is, therefore, not possible to perform this job on a side-line, as it would be a fulltime job to be a conscientious school physician.
  • (13) "She is very warm and frank, and when she is talking to people she conscientiously listens to what they have to say," said Wu Qing, a retired professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University who met Obama on Sunday.
  • (14) Good clinical practice will permit the conscientious optometrist to identify those patients who have very early signs of this disease.
  • (15) She apparently thought she could “conscientiously object” and keep the perks of the job she conscientiously objects to performing at the same time.
  • (16) The difference manifesting itself in the barbiturate elimination among diabetic and non-diabetic pregnancies, draws attention to the conscientious selection of drugs and doses employed in the course of narcosis during Caesarean section.
  • (17) As these agents become more effective, especially against long-wave UV radiation, and as patients begin to use them more conscientiously, we should experience a decrease in skin cancer rates.
  • (18) Powell's world is well supplied with pubs without being beery, and there are times when the streets are thronged with well-born paupers conscientiously dodging their creditors.
  • (19) Asked by Young if she was a conscientious student, May said: “I’m afraid so, yes.
  • (20) Emphasis is placed on careful and conscientious decisions by the young woman who wants an abortion and the important people in her environment who will affect her decision to abort.

Enthusiastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Enthusiastical
  • (n.) An enthusiast; a zealot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
  • (2) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
  • (3) Since then, Republican activists and enthusiasts have been energised and polls have tightened.
  • (4) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
  • (5) People like me argued that's an analytical error, that the most enthusiastic deepeners will be the new member states, and we were three-quarters right.
  • (6) So when he came to tell me, he said, "Don't get too enthusiastic, it has nothing to do with your abilities, it's to do with the fact that they have just raised the expatriate allowances."
  • (7) In contrast, we are less enthusiastic about thrombolytic therapy for distal small vessel thrombosis or embolism because complete clot lysis was achieved in only one of five patients.
  • (8) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
  • (9) Netanyahu can be expected to enthusiastically support a tougher Trump line .
  • (10) The new defence minister, Augustin Bizimana, enthusiastically carried on arming the Interahamwe.
  • (11) The project provided experiential learning and interdisciplinary interactions that were enthusiastically received by the students.
  • (12) Russia was less enthusiastic about an area out of reach of its bombers, insisting on fighters going one way and civilians the other.
  • (13) And it has proved too forgiving of welfare abuse, too obsessed with universal human rights, and too enthusiastic about immigration.
  • (14) Nadella pleases ValueAct – see this enthusiastic statement today – which has been until now Microsoft's biggest critic.
  • (15) He found Margaret Thatcher far more enthusiastic and he was invited to a Downing Street reception where he met the chairman of a small City bank.
  • (16) It positioned Labour much more to the left, David Cameron's Tories a little more to the right, and the Liberal Democrats as the sole enthusiasts for a previously overcrowded centre.
  • (17) Sakowicz, witness to tens of thousands of murders at the Ponar (Paneriai) site outside Vilnius, recorded accurately that most of the killers were enthusiastic locals.
  • (18) He says the president is ready to embrace the results "enthusiastically" and accept the will of the people.
  • (19) However visitors to benm.at – an iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts' website – can download a profile that instantly activates the tethering system free of charge.
  • (20) This use of MR imaging has been enthusiastically accepted by orthopedic surgeons, and the assessment of musculoskeletal trauma has emerged as one of the most commonly utilized applications of this diagnostic method.