Search Result for "painstaking":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. characterized by extreme care and great effort;
- Example: "conscientious application to the work at hand"
- Example: "painstaking research"
- Example: "scrupulous attention to details"
[syn: conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Painstaking \Pains"tak`ing\ (p[=a]nz"t[=a]k`[i^]ng), a. Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." --Harris. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Painstaking \Pains"tak`ing\, n. The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "painstaking": assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, conscientious, conscionable, diligence, diligent, elaborate, exact, fussy, heedful, industrious, industriousness, industry, meticulous, operose, pains, painstakingness, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, sedulous, sedulousness, thorough, thoroughgoing, thoroughgoingness, thoroughness
