PAINSTAKING, PAINSTAKINGLY
ADJECTIVES
– DEEDIE full of activity; painstaking, earnest …1852 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DEEDY full of activity; painstaking, earnest …1852 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– LABORIOSE † laborious, painstaking …1727
– OPEROUS † made or done with much labour or effort; laborious, industrious, busy; painstaking, tedious; toilsome; elaborate …a1538
- PAINFUL painstaking, hardworking, active …1641 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ADVERBS
– PAINFULLY with great pains, painstakingly, laboriously, with care an effort …1555 arch.
NOUNS
– PAINFULNESS the quality of taking pains; laboriousness, careful industry, painstaking …1531 arch.
– PAINING † the taking of pains …1633
– PAIN-TAKING † painstaking, assiduous effort; sometimes including the notion of enduring pain …1528
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