painstaking
careful and diligent effort.
Origin of painstaking
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Other words for painstaking
Other words from painstaking
- pains·tak·ing·ly, adverb
- pains·tak·ing·ness, noun
Words Nearby painstaking
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How to use painstaking in a sentence
Without any explanation we watch art restorers at work, and the painstaking, technical deconstruction of a Rembrandt.
Inside The Secret World of London’s National Gallery | Tim Teeman | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMonitoring and surveillance are painstaking work, but necessary to finding and preparing the perfect location.
A Most Illegal Adventure with New York City’s Wildest Underground Event Planners | Nina Strochlic | December 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn months of painstaking negotiations with the gang of eight, he agreed to the existing language.
And the rational corrective is invariably slow and painstaking.
Boston Marathon Attacks Will Now Define Terrorism For Americans | Hussein Ibish | April 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBuilding cover is a long and painstaking process that involves more than remembering not to use a Hebrew word here and there.
If not, he must carefully study the intervening pages with painstaking—for when once learned, no further difficulty can arise.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Women make better wormers than men, probably because they are more patient and painstaking.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Sometimes the Time Observatory would pinpoint an age and hover over it while his companions took painstaking historical notes.
The Man from Time | Frank Belknap LongOpportunities are constantly afforded for error, and the work must necessarily be painstaking in order to be successful.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheThe location is a rather secluded one and the painstaking care noticeable about so many ruins is lacking.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. Murphy
British Dictionary definitions for painstaking
/ (ˈpeɪnzˌteɪkɪŋ) /
extremely careful, esp as to fine detail: painstaking research
Derived forms of painstaking
- painstakingly, adverb
- painstakingness, noun
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