painful

Speech parts

1. painful - Adjective

2. painful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

Painstaking; careful; industrious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

laborious afflictive gorky difficult severe trying sensitive sharp bitter problematic terrible tender cruel unpleasant uncomfortable

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Antonyms

painless royal white good medical message

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Phrases with the word

be painful painful swallowing disease that causes painful areas in the mouth painful landing in a painful way no painful sensations

Examples

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Paul

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. Uma Thurman

The light is painful to sore eyes. Italian Proverb

Many children and little bread is a painful pleasure. German Proverb

You eat an egg, but you don't understand how painful it was for the chicken. Netherlands Antillean Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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