Painstaking

//ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ//

Synonyms for "painstaking" (49 found)

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Translations

37 translations across 16 languages.

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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

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  • minutieuse adj (careful attentive; diligent)
  • minutieux adj (careful attentive; diligent)
  • méticuleuse adj (careful attentive; diligent)
  • méticuleux adj (careful attentive; diligent)

German

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Each item was described in painstaking detail.

Source: tatoeba (43060)

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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