'Painful' definitions:
Definition of 'painful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness" [ant: painless]
adjective
Causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: afflictive, painful, sore]
adjective
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" [syn: atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable]
adjective
Causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful" [syn: irritating, painful]
Definition of 'Painful'
From: GCIDE
- Painful \Pain"ful\, a.
- 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. [1913 Webster] -- {Pain"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Pain"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'painful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Painful'
- Pain,
- Pained,
- Painfully,
- Painfulness,
- Paining,
- Pains,
- be at pains,
- paine,
- Paine Field,
- To die in the pain,
- chest pain,
- growing pains,
- labor pain,
- labor pains,
- labour pains,
- lumbar pain,
- mental pain,
- pain in the ass,
- pain in the neck,
- pain killer,
- pain pill,
- pain sensation,
- pain threshold,
- pain unit,
- painful sensation,
- referred pain,
- take pains,
- thomas paine,
- tom paine,
- Bill of pains and penalties,
- Paine Field, WA,
- To pain one's self,
- pain-free,
- painful vs painless,
- phantom limb pain,
- robert treat paine,
- pleasure-pain principle,
- Paine Field-Lake Stickney,
- Paine Field-Lake Stickney, WA