painstakingly

C2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/ See IPA manual

Freq #42871

Meanings

1

adv
With great care and effort; very slowly and carefully.

She painstakingly checked every line of the report for errors.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adv · with great care and effort;... fastidiously

Etymology

From painstaking + -ly.

*kʷey- Proto-Indo-European

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Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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