painstaking
I
adjective
assiduous, attentive, careful, conscientious, diligent, earnest, elaborate, energetic, exacting, hardworking, heedful, industrious, labored, laborious, meticulous, never-tiring, operose, operosus, particular, persevering, plodding, precise, punctilious, regardful, scrupulous, sedulous, sedulus, sparing no pains, strenuous, strict, thorough, untiring, zealous
II
index
careful, circumspect, conscientious, difficult, diligence (care), diligent, elaborate, faithful (diligent), industrious, meticulous, operose, particular (exacting), pertinacious, precise, sedulous, thorough
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006