What does painstakingly mean?
Painstakingly means In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully..
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/ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/ · adverb
In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully..
I wish he had had a dog, just so we could see how painstakingly he would have divided that dog among the family, in his careful business way.
With the help of a friend from Zagreb, he found a map showing the locations of all the monuments and painstakingly sought them out, discovering while doing so that most of the thousands of Spomeniks had been deliberately destroyed.
Use painstakingly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Painstakingly means In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully..
Common synonyms include fastidiously.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I wish he had had a dog, just so we could see how painstakingly he would have divided that dog among the family, in his careful business way.
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