Painstaking vs Dilligent - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between painstaking and dilligent

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

As a noun painstaking

is the application of careful and attentive effort.

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

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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 .