Painstaking

Origin

From pains plural usage + taking.

Full definition of painstaking

Adjective

1. Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
• HarrisAll these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• painstakingly, painstakingness

Noun

1. The application of careful and attentive effort.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.10:I esteeme Bocace his Decameron, Rabelais, and the kisses of John the second (if they may be placed under this title) worth the paines-taking to reade them.