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I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.
Dev Hynes

Meaning of "painstaking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PAINSTAKING

painstaking  [ˈpeɪnzˌteɪkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAINSTAKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Painstaking is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PAINSTAKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of painstaking in the English dictionary

The definition of painstaking in the dictionary is extremely careful, esp as to fine detail.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PAINSTAKING


aching
ˈeɪkɪŋ
baking
ˈbeɪkɪŋ
braking
ˈbreɪkɪŋ
breaking
ˈbreɪkɪŋ
breathtaking
ˈbrɛθˌteɪkɪŋ
caretaking
ˈkeəˌteɪkɪŋ
decision-making
dɪˈsɪʒənˌmeɪkɪŋ
drug-taking
ˈdrʌɡˌteɪkɪŋ
heartbreaking
ˈhɑːtˌbreɪkɪŋ
homemaking
ˈhəʊmˌmeɪkɪŋ
making
ˈmeɪkɪŋ
matchmaking
ˈmætʃˌmeɪkɪŋ
oath-taking
ˈəʊθˌteɪkɪŋ
overtaking
ˌəʊvəˈteɪkɪŋ
record-breaking
ˈrɛkɔːdˈbreɪkɪŋ
risk-taking
ˈrɪskteɪkɪŋ
stocktaking
ˈstɒkˌteɪkɪŋ
taking
ˈteɪkɪŋ
undertaking
ˈʌndəˌteɪkɪŋ
waking
ˈweɪkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAINSTAKING

painfully
painfulness
painim
painkiller
painkilling
painless
painlessly
painlessness
pains
painstaker
painstakingly
painstakingness
paint
paint bomb
paint gun
paint remover
paint roller
paint spray
paint stripper
paint the town red

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAINSTAKING

banking
English-speaking
film-making
freaking
French-speaking
ground-breaking
home baking
in a manner of speaking
in the making
lovemaking
non-profit-making
phreaking
policy-making
printmaking
public speaking
raking
sneaking
soaking
speaking
streaking
winemaking

Synonyms and antonyms of painstaking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PAINSTAKING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «painstaking» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of painstaking

Translation of «painstaking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PAINSTAKING

Find out the translation of painstaking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of painstaking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «painstaking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

十分小心的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

concienzudo
570 millions of speakers

English

painstaking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

श्रमसाध्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مضنية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кропотливая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esmerado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যত্নশীল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

méticuleux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Teliti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gewissenhaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

骨の折れる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

면밀한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Painstaking
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

siêng năng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिश्रमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

özenli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

minuzioso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

żmudne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

копітка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

silitor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επίπονη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

deurdagte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mödosamt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

møysommelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of painstaking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAINSTAKING»

The term «painstaking» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.739 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PAINSTAKING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about painstaking

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10 QUOTES WITH «PAINSTAKING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word painstaking.
1
Laurie Halse Anderson
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.
2
Paul D. Boyer
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
3
Tim Cahill
Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.
4
Robert Grosseteste
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
5
Robert Grosseteste
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
6
Dev Hynes
I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.
7
Polykarp Kusch
No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.
8
Richard Lugar
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
9
Frank Ocean
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
10
Richard Owen
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAINSTAKING»

Discover the use of painstaking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to painstaking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Painstaking
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Painstaking, 2009
2
Painstaking
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
Catharine M. Trowbridge, 2010
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Painstaking
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
‎2012
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Painstaking
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Anonymous, 2010
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Walter Pater: an Imaginative Sense of Fact: A Collection of ...
®the. excellences of literary form in regard to science are reducible to various kinds of painstaking. ̄3 Pater wishes,indeed, that Pausanias hadbeenmore. ® painstaking ̄. in his collectionof facts. He would like to know more, but the more he.
Philip Dodd, 2013
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A Handbook for Analyzing Chinese Characters
painstaking; painful; hardzg-:ii§$E4] 211% '?:'il13i, —$'l”€5s'5lE'J'£'75%i'??£'? 153:1i)T'£Hi5lET = [JinQ guo duo nidn de ké kfr zufin ydn, yi zhong you xiiio dc yoo wu lido fd zhong yu yénjifi chi loi le.] After years of painstaking research an ...
‎2008
7
Being and Learning: A Poetic Phenomenology of Education
A Poetic Phenomenology of Education Eduardo M. Duarte. which the many makes its appearance. The exercise of freedom is the painstaking listening that cultivates and cares for the appearance of the manifold of difference articulating itself ...
Eduardo M. Duarte, 2012
8
Rational Discourse and Poetic Communication: Methods of ...
His behavior seems slow and painstaking. This difference of interpretation between (1a) and (1c) is once again remarkable since neither (1a) nor (1c) contain morphological or lexical information presenting Mr. Smith as normal or cautious and ...
Roland Posner, 1982
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93 Untranslatable Russian Words
{adjective} Laborious, painstaking, precise, minute (as in work). Something that requires much diligence, effort, patience, and attention to detail. Can be used about the nature of work or about a person who does such work. The work is ...
Natalia Gogolitsyna, Paul Richardson, Nora Favorov, 2008
10
Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development
But to suggest, as he does, that 'the word "discovered" . . . glosses over the painstaking work that has to be done by the scientist before he can see the pure substance in the test tube,'80 and that therefore 'isolation' is a legitimate device to  ...
Professor Johanna Gibson, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAINSTAKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term painstaking is used in the context of the following news items.
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Derbyshire pub's painstaking transformation
HEIDI Taylor brims with pride when she shows you around the latest historic building to reap the benefit of her eye for interior style – The Boot ... «Derby Telegraph, Jul 15»
2
Plan issued to shut Cuba base
"It means a painstaking establishment of security protocols that would govern the transfer of that individual." In June, six Yemeni prisoners were ... «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
3
After acquittal, Rick Brunson addresses court of public opinion
In a startlingly candid interview, Brunson went into painstaking detail to deny each charge against him. He expressed disappointment with the ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
4
'Geo-engineers' want to whiten clouds to fight global warming
Through painstaking trial and error, the scientists are designing and building a nozzle that emits particles that are small enough to rise and ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
5
Iran nuclear deal: new generation dares to dream of brighter future
Even when they have been completed, recovery will be slow and painstaking, according to Majid Zamani, the chief executive of Tehran's ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
Newspapers' future difficult – but indispensable
Frankly, it is hard to imagine any other branch of the news media taking up the kind of difficult, expensive and painstaking work that ... «Durham Herald Sun, Jul 15»
7
The Darwin Martin at 125 Jewett Pkwy in Buffalo, Monday, July 20 …
Botti's studio has restored stained glass in a dozen cathedrals, hundreds of churches and synagogues and undertook the painstaking work of ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
8
'His-and-hers' art studio in Orono is irresistible hangout spot
But after painstaking restoration by OTC Vintage of Maple Grove, the rocket not only looks jaunty, but still has its amusement-park mojo. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Death of a Gentleman: Film blames demise of Test cricket on …
Collins and Kimber's painstaking four-year investigation into who runs the show features England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
10
Shorten gets a lifeline on boat turnback policy
... like about the policy crafted by opposition spokesman for immigration and border protection Richard Marles after painstaking consultations, ... «Brisbane Times, Jul 15»

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