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.

Painstaking — meaning and pronunciation

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
characterized by extreme care and great effort
“conscientious application to the work at hand”
“painstaking research”
“scrupulous attention to details”
Synonymsconscientious scrupulous
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/.

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