painful Synonyms

sorrowful laborious grievous sore awful distressing afflictive dreadful torturing. torturous toilsome throbbing tormenting tragic punishing worrying traumatic troubling troublesome troublous trying thorny terrible tender racking saddening sensitive severe sharp skinless smarting soreness stabbing stentorious stinging stressful suffering swingeing taxing twinging uncomfortable gruelling nettlesome plaguey dolourous nociceptive heart-breaking unbearable heart-rending algetic