Systematic vs Painstaking - What's the difference?
systematic | painstaking | Related terms |
Carried out using a planned, ordered procedure
Methodical, regular and orderly
Of, or relating to taxonomic classification
(proscribed) Of, relating to, or being a system
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)
Systematic is a related term of painstaking.
As adjectives the difference between systematic and painstaking
is that systematic is carried out using a planned, ordered procedure 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.systematic
English
Alternative forms
* systematickAdjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* chaotic * haphazard * unsystematicDerived terms
* systematically * systematicity * systematicspainstaking
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* 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 .