painstaking
11painstaking — [[t]pe͟ɪnsteɪkɪŋ[/t]] ADJ GRADED; usu ADJ n A painstaking search, examination, or investigation is done extremely carefully and thoroughly. Forensic experts carried out a painstaking search of the debris. Syn: careful, thorough Derived words:… …
12painstaking — adj. Painstaking is used with these nouns: ↑care, ↑detail, ↑effort, ↑process, ↑research, ↑search, ↑work …
13painstaking — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. careful, particular, meticulous, scrupulous; diligent. See exertion, care. Ant., careless, sloppy. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. scrupulous, exacting, meticulous; see careful . III (Roget s 3… …
14painstaking — adjective very careful and thorough: fourteen months of painstaking investigation painstakingly adjective …
15painstaking — adjective painting these window frames is painstaking work Syn: careful, meticulous, thorough, assiduous, sedulous, attentive, diligent, industrious, conscientious, punctilious, scrupulous, rigorous, particular; pedantic, fussy Ant: slapdash …
16painstaking — /ˈpeɪnzteɪkɪŋ / (say paynztayking) adjective 1. assiduously careful: painstaking work. –noun 2. careful and assiduous effort. –painstakingly, adverb …
17painstaking — I. noun Date: 1538 the action of taking pains ; diligent care and effort II. adjective Date: 1696 taking pains ; expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort • painstakingly adverb …
18painstaking — 1. adjective Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure. 2. noun The application of careful and attentive effort …
19painstaking — Synonyms and related words: assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, conscientious, conscionable, diligence, diligent, elaborate, exact, fussy, heedful, industrious, industriousness, industry, meticulous, operose, pains, painstakingness, punctilious …
20painstaking — pains|tak|ing [ peınz,teıkıŋ ] adjective done or doing something very carefully and slowly …
