About The Word Painful

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Painful

Painful Meaning & Definition
Painful Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Painful?

[adj] causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
[adj] exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
[adj] causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness"
[adj] causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Painful: abominable | aching | achy | afflictive | agonised | agonising | agonized | agonizing | atrocious | awful | bad | biting | bitter | burning | chafed | dreadful | excruciating | galled | harrowing | irritating | poignant | racking | saddle-sore | sensitive | smarting | sore | tender | terrible | torturesome | torturing | torturous | traumatic | uncomfortable | unpleasant | unspeakable | wrenching

Related Terms | Find terms related to Painful: aching | achy | acute | affecting | afflictive | aggravating | agonizing | algetic | annoying | arduous | assiduous | atrocious | backbreaking | besetting | biting | bitter | bleak | bothersome | burdensome | burning | careful | cheerless | comfortless | conscientious | cramping | cruel | crushing | demanding | deplorable | depressing | depressive | detailed | diligent | discomforting | dismal | dismaying | disquieting | distasteful | distressful | distressing | disturbing | dolorific | dolorogenic | dolorous | dreary | earnest | effortful | exacting | exasperating | excruciating | forced | galling | gnawing | grave | grievous | griping | grueling | harassing | hard | hard-earned | hard-fought | harrowing | harsh | heavy | hefty | Herculean | hurtful | hurting | irksome | irritating | joyless | killing | labored | laborious | lamentable | meticulous | mournful | moving | onerous | operose | oppressive | painstaking | paroxysmal | pathetic | piercing | piteous | pitiable | plaguey | poignant | pungent | punishing | racking | raw | regrettable | rigorous | rueful | sad | saddening | scrupulous | sedulous | sensitive | severe | sharp | shooting | smarting | sore | sorrowful | spasmatic | spasmic | spasmodic | stabbing | stinging | strained | strenuous | tender | thorough | thoroughgoing | throbbing | toilsome | tormenting | torturous | touching | tough | troublesome | troubling | trying | unappetizing | uncomfortable | unpalatable | unpleasant | unsavory | uphill | vexatious | vexing | wearisome | woebegone | woeful | worrisome | worrying | wretched

See Also | harmful | inhumane | prickling | stinging | tingling

Painful In Webster's Dictionary

\Pain"ful\, a. 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. --Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden. Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. -- {Pain"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Pain"ful*ness}, n.

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