painstakingadjective
uk/ˈpeɪnzˌteɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈpeɪnzˌteɪ.kɪŋ/extremely careful and correct, and involving a lot of effort:
It took months of painstaking research to write the book.
He was described by his colleagues as a painstaking journalist.
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- schlep
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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Detailed and careful
Effort and expending energy