Each item was described in painstaking detail.
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Painstaking
//ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ//
Synonyms for "painstaking" (49 found)
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3 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- старателен adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- усърден adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Catalan
1 entries- acurat adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 嚴謹 /严谨 adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- 慎密 adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- 細緻 /细致 adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Finnish
1 entries- vaivalloinen adj (careful attentive; diligent)
French
4 entries- minutieuse adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- minutieux adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- méticuleuse adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- méticuleux adj (careful attentive; diligent)
German
1 entries- akribisch adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Italian
2 entries- minuzioso adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- scrupoloso adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Japanese
1 entries- 綿密な adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Māori
1 entries- mārehe adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Occitan
4 entries- atentiu adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- diligent adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- espepidaire adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- menimós adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Portuguese
3 entries- escrupuloso adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- meticuloso adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- minucioso adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Russian
3 entries- аккура́тный adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- кропотли́вый adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- о́чень осторо́жный adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- pongail adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Spanish
2 entries- esmerado adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- minucioso adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Swedish
3 entries- flitig adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- noggrann adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- omsorgsfull adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Turkish
2 entries- itinalı adj (careful attentive; diligent)
- özenli adj (careful attentive; diligent)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Vaccines typically take years of painstaking research to develop.
Source: tatoeba (9465527)
This is painstaking work.
Source: tatoeba (10793203)
It was really painstaking work.
Source: tatoeba (11813101)
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