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Serious vs Painstaking - What's the difference?

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Serious is a related term of painstaking.


As adjectives the difference between serious and painstaking

is that serious is without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn 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.

serious

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn.
    • It was a surprise to see the captain, who had always seemed so serious , laugh so heartily.
  • Important; weighty; not trifling; leaving no room for play; needing great attention; critical.
    • This is a serious problem. We'll need our best experts.
  • Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving; meaningful.
    • After all these years, we're finally getting serious attention.

    Synonyms

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    Antonyms

    * trifling, unimportant * (intending what is said) jesting

    Derived terms

    * srs (abbreviation) * dead serious * seriously * seriousness * serious-minded * serious-mindedly * serious-mindedness

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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

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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 .