adj. showing or taking great care or effort
His painstaking editing of a manuscript made him cranky.
His painstaking editing of a manuscript made him cranky.
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fastidious; meticulous; punctilious; scrupulous
careless; easy; half-baked;half-done
3 syllables
pains-tak-ing
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