• (America) IPA: /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ/
• (British) IPA: /ˈpeɪnzˌteɪkɪŋ/

painstaking

1. Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

   • All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.

• See also Thesaurus:industrious
• See also Thesaurus:meticulous

• French: méticuleux, méticuleuse, minutieux, minutieuse
• German: akribisch
• Italian: scrupoloso, minuzioso
• Portuguese: escrupuloso, minucioso, meticuloso
• Russian: о́чень осторо́жный
• Spanish: minucioso, esmerado

painstaking

1. The application of careful and attentive effort.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     I esteeme Bocace his Decameron, Rabelais, and the kisses of John the second (if they may be placed under this title) worth the paines-taking to reade them.

   • It is not by a flight of imagination that you gain the ascents of spiritual experience. It is by the toils and the watchings and the painstakings of a solid obedience.

   • Behold what an abundant recompense attends the small processes of the earth, with the help of a little warm air; and what wealthy returns the industry of the husbandman and the florist is preparing from a few seeds and painstakings.