painstakingly
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Definition
Adverb: - With great care, thoroughness, and diligence: Performing an action with extreme attention to detail and a conscientious effort to avoid errors or omissions.
Usage
The adverb "painstakingly" is used to modify a verb, describing that the action is performed with meticulous and diligent effort. It emphasizes the careful, time-consuming, and thorough nature of the work involved.
Examples
- The artist painstakingly restored the ancient fresco, working for months on a single square inch.
- She painstakingly checked every reference in her thesis before submitting it.
- He painstakingly assembled the model ship from hundreds of tiny pieces.
Advanced Usage
- "painstakingly detailed": Used as an intensifier before an adjective like "detailed" to emphasize an exceptional level of thoroughness.
- The report provided a painstakingly detailed account of the event.
- "painstakingly slow": Can describe a process that is slow precisely because it is done with such great care.
- Progress was painstakingly slow but ensured no mistakes were made.
Variants and Related Words
- Painstaking (adjective): Characterized by or requiring great care and diligent effort.
- She is known for her painstaking research methods.
- Painstakingness (noun): The quality of being painstaking.
- The painstakingness of his work is evident in the final product.
Synonyms
- Meticulously: In a way that shows great attention to detail; very thoroughly.
- Assiduously: With great care and perseverance.
- Diligently: In a way that shows care and conscientiousness in one's work or duties.
- Scrupulously: In a very careful and thorough way, paying strict attention to what is right.
Antonyms
- Carelessly: In a way that does not show care or attention.
- Hastily: With excessive speed or urgency; hurriedly.
- Slapdash: In a hasty, careless manner.
Adverb
- in a fastidious and painstaking manner
- it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling