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Definition: Painstakingly |
PainstakinglyAdverb1. In a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "painstakingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonym: PainstakinglySynonym: fastidiously (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Painstakingly |
| English words defined with "painstakingly": fastidiously ♦ thorough ♦ uncontrived, unstudied. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "painstakingly": demogroup. (references) |
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Screenplays | This campfire stuff is fun, it really is, but it doesn't matter how painstakingly we go over these sewer plans or how many damn flashlights or helmets you've got in that box. When the sun comes up, I'm dust, and I would suggest that you follow me and get the hell out of Dodge! (It; writing credit: Stephen King; Lawrence D. Cohen) | |
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Travel | Ukraine | As noted above, given the absence of a strong, transparent legal infrastructure, your deal may in the end depend on the trust you have painstakingly built over many months or years. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Painstakingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "Painstakingly" is used about 177 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.44% | 176 | 23,410 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 177 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "painstakingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | بعناية (carefully, closely, neatly), بعناء, بدقة (accurately, carefully, circumstantially, fussily, minutely, narrowly, on time, precisely, strictly, true). (various references) | |
Chinese | 刻苦 (Painstaking). (various references) | |
French | laborieusement, avec soin, assidûment. (various references) | |
German | sorgfältige (carefully). (various references) | |
Greek | προσεκτικά (attentively, carefully, closely, gingerly), επιμελώς. (various references) | |
Italian | accurato (accurate, careful, clean, faithful, natty, nice, painstaking, particular, precise, sound, thorough, tidy, trim, true). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ''辛苦 (assiduously, tireless hard work, toil and moil, working assiduously for), '々辛苦 (assiduously, tireless hard work, toil and moil, working assiduously for). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | りゅうりゅうし"く (assiduously, tireless hard work, toil and moil, working assiduously for). (various references) | |
Korean | 근면하게 (Assiduously, Diligently). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ainstakinglypay.(various references) | |
Romanian | minuţios (careful, close, elaborately, minute, painstaking, particular, precise, punctilious, searching, severe, thorough), migãlos (careful, finical, niggling, painstaking, precise, scrupulous, scrupulously), lucrând conştiincios, cu toatã silinţa, cu migalã, anevoie (drudgingly, hardly). (various references) | |
Russian | тщательно (in depth, scrupulously, thoroughly). (various references) | |
Spanish | diligente (careful, diligent, sedulous, thorough). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Painstakingly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: painstakinly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "painstakingly" (pronounced pā"nstā'kinglē) |
| 7 | -t ā' k i ng l ē | breathtakingly. |
| 5 | -k i ng l ē | jokingly, shockingly, strikingly, unthinkingly. |
| 4 | -i ng l ē | accordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, warningly, willingly, wittingly. |
| 3 | -ng l ē | gangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-i-k-l-n-n-p-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: painstaking. | |
-3 letters: stinkingly. | |
-4 letters: analysing, antikings, kyanising, paintings, plaitings, plankings, plantains, plantings, splinting, tinklings. | |
-5 letters: alpinist, annalist, antiking, antislip, ignatias, inklings, inlaying, insanity, kiltings, kingpins, kitlings, nasality, paganist, painting, palsying, patining, pigtails, pinkings, pintails, plaining, plaiting, planking, plantain, planting, platinas, platings, plinking, ptyalins, sainting, salinity, slanting, slinking, snailing, spanking, splaying, splining, staining, stalking, stapling, stingily, stinking, tailings, tailspin, takingly, talkings, tilapias, tinkling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 69 6E 73 74 61 6B 69 6E 67 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .. -. ... - .- -.- .. -. --. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a i n s t a k i n g l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0069 006E 0073 0074 0061 006B 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50677580858667777580737891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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