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Synonyms for painstakingly

The synonym for painstakingly recorded in this bank is fastidiously, in the sense "in a fastidious and painstaking manner". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adverb

The synonym for painstakingly

fastidiouslyadverb, in the sense "in a fastidious and painstaking manner"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for painstakingly.

The senseadverbTier 5, Summit

in a fastidious and painstaking manner

Painstakingly learn the routines of selling.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

fastidiously

Same sentence, swapped: Fastidiously learn the routines of selling.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where painstakingly stands in the sentence above.

earnestly
dingdong
tenderly

Where painstakingly turns up in the game

painstakingly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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