painstakingly
/ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/
painstakingly adverb: in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.
Adverb
painstakingly (comparative more painstakingly, superlative most painstakingly)
- In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.
- 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.1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 314
- 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.2013 June 18, Joshua Surtees, “Spomeniks: the second world war memorials that look like alien art”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2018
Forms of painstakingly
| comparative | more painstakingly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most painstakingly |
Origin of painstakingly
From painstaking + -ly.
Questions about painstakingly
- What does painstakingly mean?
- Painstakingly means in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.
- What part of speech is painstakingly?
- Painstakingly is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce painstakingly?
- Painstakingly is pronounced /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/.
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