painstakingly

1. 1.

   in a fastidious and painstaking manner

   “it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling”

   Synonymsfastidiously

Questions about painstakingly

What does painstakingly mean?

painstakingly means "in a fastidious and painstaking manner".

How many syllables are in painstakingly?

painstakingly has 4 syllables: pain-sta-kin-gly. The stress falls on "pain". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/.

What is another word for painstakingly?

Close synonyms include fastidiously. 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 painstakingly a common word?

painstakingly 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.