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US
/ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ/
]
[ UK /pˈeɪnsteɪkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /pˈeɪnsteɪkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
characterized by extreme care and great effort
painstaking research
conscientious application to the work at hand
scrupulous attention to details
How To Use painstaking In A Sentence
- Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times
- He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
- The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
- Probably the most painstaking part of the job is the scrupulous documentation process.
- For several weeks the back of my brain was busy contemplating this daft question, after disassembling the word painstaking in my head. Archive 2006-01-01
- Later in that same decade, he began developing the concept of sound on sound recording, first painstakingly overdubbing part after part on a 78 rpm record cutting machine, and then later on magnetic tape.
- They proved that fungi can be identified in virtually all patients with chronic rhinosinusitis if meticulous, painstaking efforts are taken to procure samples.
- Youth movements are charted in painstaking detail. Times, Sunday Times
- Divided into sections (the Americas, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe), it provides natural history images painstakingly rendered by artists over centuries, which depict new forms of flora and fauna that the European world was just discovering - from the banded krait (a snake) to the white-tailed gnu. 3 books for giving
- It is a historical document showing the author's painstaking research and narrative skills.