Meaning of PAINFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'peynful
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | 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 |
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| | Antonyms: | | painless | | |
| | See Also: | | harmful, inhumane, prickling, stinging, tingling | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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