Painstaking vs Punctilious - What's the difference?
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Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
* Harris
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)
* (Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham)
Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
* 2009 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Semantics: an introduction to meaning in language
As adjectives the difference between painstaking and punctilious
is that painstaking is carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure while punctilious is strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.As a noun painstaking
is the application of careful and attentive effort.painstaking
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.
Synonyms
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* painstakingly, painstakingnessNoun
- 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 .
punctilious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
- Of course, humans do not treat time in such a punctilious fashion.