Vocabulary
Painstaking
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
done with or employing great care and thoroughness.
Urdu meaning
محنتی، فرض شناس
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
- As part of Operation Lytton, Greater Manchester Police`s painstaking work has corrected past failures, especially those that led to the initial betrayal of survivors by law enforcement and social services.
- The spirit of federalism demands a painstaking process of consensus building for sustainability.
- Yet new details keep emerging, thanks to a painstaking inquiry by a parliamentary panel.
- Yet new details keep emerging, thanks to a painstaking inquiry by a parliamentary panel.
- In the privacy market, any service provider that does not make painstaking efforts to protect its users and their data is quickly flagged and `blacklisted`.
Synonyms
careful, meticulous, thorough, assiduous, sedulous, attentive, diligent, industrious
Antonyms
careless, negligent, slapdash,
Curator example
“painstaking attention to detail”
More vocabulary to explore
About this vocabulary section.
These entries support close reading of Dawn editorials and opinion pieces: short definitions,
Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
so you can see tone and usage.
Common questions
- Do I need to sign up to use this vocabulary page?
- No. Word pages are open to everyone. You can read meanings in English and Urdu, synonyms and antonyms, and example sentences without creating an account.
- Where do the example sentences come from?
- When available, example sentences are drawn from cached matches in our Dawn editorial corpus so you can see how a word is used in real newsroom-style prose.
- How is this different from a dictionary?
- This section is curated for students preparing for competitive exams and editorial reading. Entries are compact, often include Urdu glosses, and are paired with in-context lines from editorials when we have them.
