Spanish word
escrúpulo
/esˈkɾupulo/
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- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine
- Level
- B2
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- moral scruple
- scruple (doubt concerning the morality of some action)
- apprehension (uneasy doubt concerning other issues, especially carefulness or pickiness about food)
- care (exactitude or rigor in the performance of some action)
- Spanish scruple, escrupulo (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 1.2 g)
- English or American scruple (a unit of mass equivalent to about 1.3 g)
- synonym of minuto: minute (¹⁄₆₀ of a degree)
- scruple(hesitation from the difficulty of determining what is right)
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