laborious, meticulous, tedious, arduous, exhaustive, intricate, tortuous, methodical, labor intensive, lengthy, delicate, intensive, thorough, scrupulous, assiduous, rigorous, torturous, fruitless, exhausting, diligent, exacting, consuming, toilsome, grueling, sisyphean, complicated, agonizing, strenuous, excruciating, slapdash, extensive, iterative, haphazard, cumbersome, fitful, intense, tireless, protracted, wearisome, artful, vigorous, careful, labyrinthine, messy, wrenching, earnest, unstinting, yearlong, frenetic, voluminous, painful, fastidious, relentless, methodic, masterly, convoluted, fragmentary, backbreaking, precise, musicological, obsessive, forensic, herculean, inexact, skillful, dizzying, elbow grease, frenzied, fiddly, workmanlike, circuitous, shoe leather, multilayered, futile, remarkable, hectic, slipshod, elaborative, unfruitful, ponderous, interminable, winnowing, arcane, frantic, thoughtful, monotonous, fascinating, monumental, secretive, harrowing, detailed, tiresome, longwinded, grisly, punctilious, costly, anthropological, fruitful, encyclopedic, masterful, systematic, riveting, diligence, carefulness, assiduity, caution, toil, annoyance, minuteness, regret, relish, exactness, exertion, forethought, preciseness, thoroughness, trepidation, tribulation, vexation, worry, attention, deliberation, timeconsuming, sedulous, conscientious, cursory, dispassionate, unbiased, unsystematic, indepth, persevering

carefulness, conscientiousness, elaboration, fastidiously, minute, narrow, painstakingly, painstakingness, unconscientiousness, working out