thorough(CAREFUL)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

paying close attention to detail
carefulAfter careful consideration, we are unable to accept your proposal.
thoroughHe seems like he's not paying attention, but don't be fooled - he's very thorough.
meticulousThis book is the result of years of meticulous research.
methodicalI appreciated his methodical approach to the work.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complicated and difficult to do
advanced
ambitious
ambitiously
another
arduous
formidable
formidably
get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
grail
gruelling
onerous
onerously
overdemanding
picnic
problematic
trickily
tricky
tuff
ultra-sensitive
unintuitive

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Detailed and careful
Effort and expending energy

painstaking | American Dictionary

painstaking
adjective
us/ˈpeɪnzˌteɪ·kɪŋ, ˈpeɪnˌsteɪ-/
(esp. of work) very careful and needing a lot of attention:
It took many months of painstaking research, but he was now ready to write the book.

Examples of painstaking

painstaking
This collective biography is a painstaking and very informative reconstruction of the lives of a number of these reformist intellectuals.
In investigations of the meta-level process per se, the painstaking avoidance of subtle cueing may be less relevant, and an indirect metacognition paradigm suitable.
But these indirect methods are often painstaking and limited by time, patience, and the availability of patients with selective impairments.
Painstaking and comprehensive they may be, but the last word they are not.
Many titles come from the early silent era where information needed painstaking reassembly.
Where necessary they have used mathematical notation but only after painstaking explanation.
I was, however, not aware of the other disturbing issues raised by this painstaking analysis.
One of the virtues of this book is that it gives us a close look at the kind of painstaking intellectual labor such reform involves.
While the author's painstaking research is impressive, the end result is mixed due to problems in organisation and in the presentation of results.
The text's beautiful, delicate, cautious, and painstaking calligraphy is equally encoded with ethical implications.
Much of the work is traditional painstaking lexical description, but the availability of large-scale tabulation of the overall results lends particular weight to the conclusions.
Some of these points probably sound carping in view of the sheer industry and painstaking work undertaken to bring this project to the fore.
Both are symbolised by the painstaking transcription in an appendix of a large part of the inquisition trial on which the book is based.
Only painstaking, detailed local studies will tell us which patterns held in which parts of this vast and heterogeneous country.
He does so combining administrative, political and economic history with a painstaking study of the colonial land registers.
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