painstakingly
/ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.
Example Sentences
- "I wish he had had a dog, just so we could see how painstakingly he would have divided that dog among the family, in his careful business way."
- "With the help of a friend from Zagreb, he found a map showing the locations of all the monuments and painstakingly sought them out, discovering while doing so that most of the thousands of Spomeniks had been deliberately destroyed."
- "Figuring out the combinatorial rules is painstakingly difficult work. […] Testing how the combinations go together requires access to a lot of language. If the language is only spoken—with no writing system (which is still the case for the majority of the world’s languages)—this is a difficult task."
Etymology
Etymology tree English painstaking Middle English -ly English -ly English painstakingly From painstaking + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more painstakingly (comparative)
most painstakingly (superlative)