painstaking

Definitions

Done with or employing great care and thoroughness.

Requiring or involving great effort and attention to detail.

Examples

The restoration of the ancient painting required painstaking attention to detail.

After months of painstaking research, the scientists finally discovered the cure.

She put a painstaking amount of effort into organizing the entire event.

Synonyms

meticulous thorough diligent assiduous careful scrupulous rigorous

Antonyms

careless negligent sloppy hasty slapdash cursory superficial