Painstaking vs Zealous - 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)
Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.
* 1791 , , volume 1, page 238:
* 1896 , , A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (2004 edition), page 122:
* 1940 , Foster Rhea Dulles, America Learns to Play: A history of popular recreation, 1607-1940 , page 61:
* 2011 April 4, "
Painstaking is a related term of zealous.
As adjectives the difference between painstaking and zealous
is that painstaking is carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure while zealous is full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.As a noun painstaking
is the application of careful and attentive effort.painstaking
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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 .
zealous
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* zelousAdjective
(en adjective)- Johnson was truly zealous for the success of "The Adventurer;" and very soon after his engaging in it, he wrote the following letter:
- Doubtless many will exclaim against the Roman Catholic Church for this; but the simple truth is that Protestantism was no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine.
- and there were few more zealous dancers at the fashionable balls in the Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg.
Newt Gingrich," Time (retrieved 9 Sept 2013):
- Newt Gingrich . . . left Congress in 1998, following GOP midterm-election losses that many blamed on his zealous pursuit of Bill Clinton's impeachment.
