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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Painstaking

'Painstaking' means meticulous or difficult?
  

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Yes, meticulous is a good synonym of painstaking (the World English Dictionary lists meticulous and painstaking as synonyms). If you separate the compound word "painstaking" into its 2 root words ... pains-taking ...

  • Yes, meticulous is a good synonym of painstaking (the World English Dictionary lists meticulous and painstaking as synonyms).
  • If you separate the compound word "painstaking" into its 2 root words ...
  • pains-taking ...
  • to be meticulous is to take great pains, to go to great lengths, to go beyond what we may want to do.
  • Difficult is not necessarily a synonym.
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Yes, meticulous is a good synonym of painstaking (the World English Dictionary lists meticulous and painstaking as synonyms). If you separate the compound word "painstaking" into its 2 root words ... pains-taking ... to be meticulous is to take great pains, to go to great lengths, to go beyond what we may want to do.

Difficult is not necessarily a synonym. It is only part of, or may ex

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