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I heard that while adding "-oriented" has become popular in the US, grammar Nazis speak against such usage. What, then, do you think might be a good replacement word or phrase for "detail-oriented"?
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I'd use "elaborate" I think, you should give a context.
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I've seen it often used in resumes when people are searching jobs and they want to say that they pay careful attention to details.
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"Meticulous" might serve. Originally, it meant "timid"; but now it means "(over-)careful about details".
Best wishes,
MrP
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In the Uk, we may say that a person like this is a 'stickler for detail'
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You can also use "anal", if you aren't too worried about offending anyone -- comes from the Freudian term "anal-retentive", which supposedly correllated meticulous neatness and attention to detail with early potty-training; but it is now used to refer to people who are overly fixated on having things just so.
I've never heard of anybody railing against the use of -oriented. English lend itself to the creation of such phrases, and terms like detail-oriented, task-oriented, outcome-oriented, etc. are quite common and very descriptive. I wouldn't pay too much attention to any detractors out there.
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Use "detail-oriented"...Some jobs require this. "Anal" is offensive, but of course Uriel already warned you about that.
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"scrupulous" is another synonym.
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"detail-attentive" or "exact" might work
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Ooh, scrupulous is good! Of course, it also conveys the connotation of being strictly ethical as well as attentive to detail -- a double whammy!
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I agree with "scrupulous" too. I think of it as a positive trait, unlike "anal
retentive" which reminds me of OCD.
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I put that I'm anal when I was applying for a porno. The human resources lady liked the double entendre.
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"scrupulous" sounds too much like exponging gravestones to me...or like Nazi over-compulsive cleansing...mixed in with a little (really a LOT) of prudishness. like Monk and Angela Lansbury combined.
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