Crossword-Solution: PAINSTAKING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Painstaking | a. | Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. |
| Painstaking | n. | The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| PAINSTAKING | anagram | TAKINGASPIN, TAKINGPAINS |
We have 63 clues for the answer “PAINSTAKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| taking pains | 1 answer |
| Very careful | 1 answer |
| Using great care and thoroughness | 1 answer |
| Sorely taking care? | 1 answer |
| Done with great care | 1 answer |
| Tattooist's job | 2 answers |
| SHOWING care | 3 answers |
| DONE with care | 6 answers |
| studious | 12 answers |
| autodidact | 13 answers |
| meticulous | 31 answers |
| Strenuous. | 32 answers |
| entangling | 32 answers |
| Disconcerting | 33 answers |
| labyrinthine | 34 answers |
| convoluted | 36 answers |
| plodding | 37 answers |
| Laboured | 38 answers |
| bruising | 39 answers |
| Decided | 39 answers |
| torturing | 40 answers |
| racking | 40 answers |
| excruciating | 40 answers |
| Struggling | 40 answers |
| bewildering | 42 answers |
| Tangled | 42 answers |
| disquieting | 42 answers |
| agonising | 43 answers |
| multifarious | 44 answers |
| Tearing | 45 answers |
| sedulous | 46 answers |
| Harrowing | 47 answers |
| worrying | 48 answers |
| saddening | 48 answers |
| gruelling | 49 answers |
| Entangled | 50 answers |
| crushing | 51 answers |
| Aching | 52 answers |
| disheartening | 52 answers |
| aggravating | 52 answers |
| disturbing | 55 answers |
| provoking | 57 answers |
| Manifold | 57 answers |
| Throbbing | 57 answers |
| multiple | 58 answers |
| arduous | 59 answers |
| Chaotic | 59 answers |
| Involved | 59 answers |
| conscientious | 60 answers |
| dying | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PAINSTAKING (5)
They were both more personal and more painstaking; full of descriptions of the gay life in the old Mexican capital in the days when the strong hand of Porfirio Diaz was still strong.
Why, the innumerable facts brought to light by their own painstaking and exhaustive experiments prove that if there is a master fool in the world, it is the bee.
The preferment seemed to him in the nature of a well-merited reward for painstaking and intelligent service, and as a stepping stone to posts of greater importance and responsibility; but, on the other hand, he had been married to the Hon.
Even to the shoes he searched with painstaking care, and when the last article had been removed and scrutinized he dropped back upon the bed with dilated eyes that saw nothing in the present—only a grim tableau of the future in which two forms swung silently from the limb of a great tree.
There the scriptural phrase finds an exact illustration; the highly favored inmates of this mansion are literally arrayed “in purple and fine linen,” and fare sumptuously every day! The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad.
Quotes with PAINSTAKING (3)
Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power …
There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1997–2025).