painstaking
/ˈpeɪnzteɪkɪŋ
/adjective
Done with or employing great care and thoroughness: painstaking attention to detail he is a gentle, painstaking man...
- The secret of good tiling is painstaking preparation and accurate cutting and fixing.
- He warned that the investigation could prove to be a long haul as it would be thorough and painstaking.
- Instead art students using all sorts of craft normally do it with painstaking care.
Synonyms
careful, meticulous, thorough, assiduous, sedulous, attentive, diligent, industrious, laborious, hard-working, conscientious, ultra-careful, punctilious, scrupulous, demanding, exacting, searching, close, elaborate, minute, accurate, correct, studious, rigorous, particular;
religious, strict;
pedantic, fussy
Derivatives
painstakingness
- His methodical painstakingness was another point of divergence from the Impressionists and he devoted many studies to creating the composition.
- The script's rendering into Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic is of a heroic painstakingness not seen since the mid '60s heyday of Esperanto cinema.
- Courage, patience and painstakingness are necessary for good science: he engaged in the arduous task of developing an anatomy register by determining anatomic nomenclature and forming the language of anatomy.
- Pietersburg
- pietic
- pietism
- pietist
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- piet-my-vrou
- pietra commessa
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- piety
- piety shop
- pietà
- pie wagon
- pie woman
- piezo
- piezoceramic
- piezo-crystallization
- piezoelastic
- piezoelectric
- piezoelectrical
- piezoelectrically
- piezoelectricity
- piezomagnetic