painstaking

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) pains-taking

Etymology

From pains +‎ taking.

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪnzˌteɪkɪŋ/

Adjective

painstaking (comparative more painstaking, superlative most painstaking)

1. Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
   • (Can we date this quote by Harris and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:industrious
• See also Thesaurus:meticulous

Derived terms

• painstakingly, painstakingness

Translations

careful attentive; diligent

• Catalan: acurat
• Finnish: vaivalloinen (fi)
• French: méticuleux (fr) m, méticuleuse (fr) f, minutieux (fr) m, minutieuse (fr) f
• German: akribisch (de)
• Italian: scrupoloso (it), minuzioso (it)
• Japanese: 綿密な (めんみつな, menmitsu na)
• Maori: mārehe
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• Occitan: primejaire, meticulós, minimós, menimós (oc), espepidaire, diligent, atentiu
• Portuguese: escrupuloso (pt), minucioso (pt), meticuloso (pt)
• Russian: о́чень осторо́жный (óčenʹ ostoróžnyj), аккура́тный (ru) (akkurátnyj), кропотли́вый (ru) (kropotlívyj) (laborious, mentally difficult)
• Scottish Gaelic: pongail
• Spanish: minucioso (es) m, esmerado (es)
• Swedish: noggrann (sv), omsorgsfull (sv), flitig (sv)

Noun

painstaking (countable and uncountable, plural painstakings)

1. The application of careful and attentive effort.
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   • (Can we date this quote by Thomas Chalmers and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     It is not by a flight of imagination that you gain the ascents of spiritual experience. It is by the toils and the watchings and the painstakings of a solid obedience.

   • (Can we date this quote by Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Behold what an abundant recompense attends the small processes of the earth, with the help of a little warm air; and what wealthy returns the industry of the husbandman and the florist is preparing from a few seeds and painstakings.