painstaking

1. 1.

   characterized by extreme care and great effort

   “conscientious application to the work at hand”

   “painstaking research”

   “scrupulous attention to details”

   Synonymsconscientiousscrupulous

   Similarcareful

Questions about painstaking

What does painstaking mean?

painstaking means "characterized by extreme care and great effort".

How many syllables are in painstaking?

painstaking has 3 syllables: pain-sta-king. The stress falls on "pain". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ/.

What is another word for painstaking?

Close synonyms include conscientious, scrupulous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is painstaking a common word?

painstaking is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with painstaking?

1 word rhymes with painstaking. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.