PAINSTAKINGLY Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

painstakingly

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as in meticulously

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Recent Examples of painstakingly The husband-and-wife duo painstakingly restored the home and opened it as a luxury bed-and-breakfast three years later. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026 The Movistar Plus Original has been painstakingly researched, and is set in the late 1990s and early 2000s. — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026 Shaiman even helped oversee the editing process, painstakingly tweaking his narration. — Brian Raftery, Vanity Fair, 6 Oct. 2026 The sets for our covers, painstakingly assembled by the creative director Jana Frost, are meant to show these arrivals were anything but sudden and easy. — Sam Jacobs, Time, 30 Sep. 2026 The white clapboard exterior topped with typical Norse dragon heads was taken back into the family in 1995 by Haeger’s great great granddaughter Ellika Modenfelt, who painstakingly restored it to its former glory with the help of local craftsmen. — Natasha Langan, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026 Anatomy itself is routinely taught as history — a chapter written and closed by Andreas Vesalius, Henry Gray, and generations of anatomists who painstakingly documented the architecture of the human body. — Subramaniam C. Krishnan, STAT, 28 Sep. 2026 Its skull and most of its tail were lost to erosion, while the surviving remains were encased in exceptionally hard rock that researchers have spent years painstakingly removing. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026 These materials were chosen to reflect the sky, water, and painstakingly landscaped gardens around the building to connect the interiors to the environment outside. — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026

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Manicurists use both manual and electric tools to meticulously trim and tidy the cuticles—leaving them as neat as humanly possible—and to prepare and shape your natural nails.

— Lucy Abbersteen, Allure, 9 Oct. 2026
In the process of making the movie, Selick and his team of some 120 people created more than 200 physical models, which were meticulously positioned and photographed, creating the still frames that provided the basis for the animation.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of meticulously

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It has also only been trained on a limited number of cell types that biologists have studied exhaustively.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Preservation Connecticut’s searchable surveys, built in collaboration with the State Historic Preservation Office, exhaustively document historic barns, mills, artistic places, and town greens in every part of the state.

— Jane Montanaro, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhaustively

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One way in which Wounaan do so is conscientiously sharing and redistributing food, money, wisdom and the like to foster equity.

— Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026
By thinking locally, building conscientiously, and operationalizing sustainability in our deployment choices, AI users, companies, and developers can also help ensure that the infrastructure powering our future doesn’t cost us the earth.

— Sasha Luccioni, Time, 3 July 2026

Definition of conscientiously

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Moore plays Mona, a meek, thoroughly unseen wife and mother who impulsively decides to audition for a community theater musical despite having no experience.

— Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
On that note, another common mistake is not rinsing hair conditioner thoroughly enough once you’re done.

— Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of thoroughly

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Their unit at first takes its task so non-seriously that in Ep.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
The revelation that Microsoft was holding back capacity — and in turn limiting Azure revenue — for a product that wasn't even seriously in the AI conversation, made the spending concerns even more understandable.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of seriously

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While many Democrats have ardently defended transgender rights, particularly in California, others in the party have sided with Republicans or softened their support.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
On the other side of Via Solari, a handful of policemen gathered around dozens of demonstrators, who ardently—but peacefully—chanted for entirely different reasons.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of ardently

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From the moment Errol Holden’s raps entered the public sphere in the early 2020s, listening to them has felt like hearing a stranger on the street earnestly tell you how the city has changed.

— Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
His query was earnestly tackled by the engineers at the RAND Corporation, who, in 1955, published a book composed only of a series of unrelated numerals piled up in neat rows.

— Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026

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