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synonyms for painstaking

  • assiduous
  • careful
  • conscientious
  • diligent
  • earnest
  • exacting
  • scrupulous
  • strenuous
  • detail-oriented
  • by the book
  • by the numbers
  • conscionable
  • exact
  • finicky
  • fussbudget
  • fussy
  • hard-working
  • heedful
  • industrious
  • particular
  • persevering
  • persnickety
  • picky
  • punctilious
  • punctual
  • sedulous
  • stickler
  • thoroughgoing
See also synonyms for: painstakingly / painstakingness

antonyms for painstaking

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  • careless
  • lazy
  • lethargic
  • negligent
  • thoughtless
  • uncareful
  • unconcerned
  • unenthusiastic
  • unscrupulous
  • easy
  • half-baked
  • half-done
  • unmindful
  • unthorough
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When a large project like “Caliphate” collapses, accordingly, it leaves behind a lot of awkward and painstaking management chores.
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Like any good cast iron cleaner, this scrub brush will get rid of the tough residue without ruining the painstaking seasoning that makes the cast iron so great for cooking.
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At their core, these products represent intellectual property—decades of agricultural know-how, a unique climate, or painstaking investment have set them apart from every other product like them around the world.
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If not, he must carefully study the intervening pages with painstaking—for when once learned, no further difficulty can arise.
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Women make better wormers than men, probably because they are more patient and painstaking.
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Sometimes the Time Observatory would pinpoint an age and hover over it while his companions took painstaking historical notes.
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Opportunities are constantly afforded for error, and the work must necessarily be painstaking in order to be successful.
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The location is a rather secluded one and the painstaking care noticeable about so many ruins is lacking.
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