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Efficient vs Painstaking - What's the difference?

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Efficient is a related term of painstaking.


As adjectives the difference between efficient and painstaking

is that efficient is efficient while painstaking is carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

As a noun painstaking is

the application of careful and attentive effort.

efficient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
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  • Using a particular proportion of available energy.
  • Causing effects; producing results.
  • * Wilson
    • The efficient cause is the working cause.

    Antonyms

    * inefficient

    Derived terms

    * efficient cause * subefficient

    Related terms

    * effect * effective * effectiveness * effectivity * effector * effectual * effectuate * efficacious * efficacity * efficacy * efficiency * subefficiency

    References

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    painstaking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
  • * Harris
    • All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * painstakingly, painstakingness

    Noun

  • The application of careful and attentive effort.
  • *, II.10:
  • *: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.
  • * (Thomas Chalmers)
    • 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.
  • * (Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham)
    • 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 .