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painstaking
adj
- 1. Conscientious and thorough, ie taking pains or care.
- Example: painstaking work
- Example: painstaking about keeping records
- Thesaurus: meticulous, conscientious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, industrious, punctilious, scrupulous, thorough, careful; Antonym: careless, negligent.
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