What is "painstaking" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does painstaking mean in English? Meaning of painstaking definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "painstaking" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "painstaking": characterized by extreme care and great effort

Adjective

  • Meaning: characterized by extreme care and great effort
  • Example: conscientious application to the work at hand painstaking research scrupulous attention to details
  • Synonyms: conscientious painstaking scrupulous
  • Similar: careful
  • Pronunciation in US: /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ/

  • Adjective: Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure. Harris All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.Harris All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.
  • Synonyms:

    diligent, earnest, scrupulous, conscientious, assiduous, strenuous, exacting, careful, by the numbers, exact, finicky, fussy, heedful, industrious, particular, persevering, persnickety, picky, punctilious, punctual, sedulous, stickler, thoroughgoing, by the book, conscionable, fussbudget, hard-working,

    Antonyms:

    lazy, lethargic, negligent, unconcerned, unscrupulous, half-baked, unenthusiastic, thoughtless, careless, uncareful, easy, half-done, unmindful, unthorough,

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