Painstaking
['peɪnzteɪkɪŋ] or ['penztekɪŋ]
Definition
(a.) Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.
(n.) The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Laborious, sedulous, diligent, industrious, careful, plodding, assiduous, strenuous, hard-working, persevering, sparing no pains.
n. Labor, industry, assiduity, diligence, perseverance, careful toil, conscientious exertion.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Careful, attentive, diligent, laborious,[See OBSERVANT_and_THOUGHTFUL]
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Examples
- Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- YOU want more painstaking and search-making! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This exquisite painstaking will be seen still more in the barrel-inspection department, to which we will go now. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And thus, by painstaking and continued practice, he learned the art of roping. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Dismounting, I laid Powell upon the ground, but the most painstaking examination failed to reveal the faintest spark of life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- An immense amount of painstaking and highly ingenious experiment preceded Edison's successful result. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We want more painstaking and search-making into this murder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It required the most painstaking work for him to make a machine to do what he had in mind. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In spite of all his painstaking it was only a partial success. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I afterward, with a little painstaking, acquired as much of the Spanish as to read their books also. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This patient, optimistic view of the outcome of experiments has remained part of his character down to this day, just as his painstaking, minute, incisive methods are still unchanged. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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