Painstaking

Quick meaning: Painstaking is an adjective meaning Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

Meaning

Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

More Meanings

1. The application of careful and attentive effort.

Example Sentences

All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.

I esteeme Bocace his Decameron, Rabelais, and the kisses of John the second (if they may be placed under this title) worth the paines-taking to reade them.

It is not by a flight of imagination that you gain the ascents of spiritual experience. It is by the toils and the watchings and the painstakings of a solid obedience.

Behold what an abundant recompense attends the small processes of the earth, with the help of a little warm air; and what wealthy returns the industry of the husbandman and the florist is preparing from a few seeds and painstakings.

Word Forms

• pains-taking
• painstakings

Synonyms for painstaking

Depending on context, synonyms include conscientious, scrupulous, careful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conscientious, scrupulous, careful, thorough, meticulous, detailed.

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