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Painstaking

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Marked by or requiring great pains; very careful and diligent. See Synonyms at meticulous.

n. Extremely careful and diligent work or effort.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

n. The application of careful and attentive effort.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.

n. The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The taking of pains; assiduous and careful labor.

That takes pains or trouble; characterized by close, careful, assiduous, or conscientious application or labor; industrious; laborious and careful: as, a painstaking person.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort

Word Usage

"Not only did the doctor who did my root canal explain, in painstaking detail, what would happen and why, I had to listen to a little lesson about possible risks and sign a whole bunch of papers saying I understood the risks and was OK with them."

Equivalent

careful

Form

painstakingness painstakingly

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

diligent faithful attentive careful care

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

methodical meticulous conscientious laborious exhaustive