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Orderly vs Painstaking - What's the difference?

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Orderly is a related term of painstaking.


As adjectives the difference between orderly and painstaking

is that orderly is neat and tidy; possessing order while painstaking is carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

As nouns the difference between orderly and painstaking

is that orderly is a hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties while painstaking is the application of careful and attentive effort.

As an adverb orderly

is .

orderly

English

(wikipedia orderly)

Alternative forms

* ordrely (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Neat and tidy; possessing order.
    • He has always kept an orderly kitchen, with nothing out of place.
  • Methodical or systematic.
    • We live in an orderly universe, where rules govern both the movements of planets and the binding of molecules.
  • Peaceful; well-behaved.
    • An orderly gathering of citizens stood on the corner awaiting the bus.
  • Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • aids-de-camp and orderly men

    Derived terms

    * orderliness

    Noun

    (orderlies)
  • A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
  • A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • * Shakespeare
    • You are blunt; go to it orderly .
  • (obsolete) In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement.
  • *, II.12:
    • Thus orderly marshaled, they take their course and swim whither their journey tends, as broad and wide behind as before.
  • * 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p.149:
    • And in the Tombe which is an arch made of mats, they lay them orderly .

    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 .