painstakingly
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pains·tak·ing
(pānz′tā′kĭng, pān′stā′kĭng)adj.
1. Acting with, showing, or involving great care and attention. See Synonyms at meticulous.
2. Usage Problem Attended by difficulties; arduous.
pains′tak′ing·ly adv.
Usage Note: Painstaking is a compound of pains and taking, though it often sounds as if it were made from pain and staking. A painstaking effort is one in which someone takes pains to do something right. The word is sometimes used to mean "arduous" or "difficult," almost as if it meant "painful," but this usage is widely considered to be a mistake. In our 2008 survey, 74 percent of the Usage Panel rejected the sentence Traveling by bus through such a huge country was a painstaking ordeal.
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Adv. | 1. | painstakingly - in a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling" |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
painstakingly
[ˈpeɪnzteɪkɪŋli] adv (= carefully) [check, search] → minutieusement; [restore, repair] → minutieusement
painstakingly researched → minutieusement documenté(e)
painstakingly restored → minutieusement restauré(e)
to painstakingly research sth → faire des recherches minutieuses sur qch
painstakingly researched → minutieusement documenté(e)
painstakingly restored → minutieusement restauré(e)
to painstakingly research sth → faire des recherches minutieuses sur qch
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
painstakingly
adv → sorgfältig, gewissenhaft; one has to be so painstakingly precise → man muss äußerst genau sein
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
painstakingly
[ˈpeɪnzˌteɪkɪŋlɪ] adv (work) → accuratamente, diligentemente; (research) → minuziosamenteCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995