painful

Meaning

1. Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
2. Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
3. Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
4. Painstaking; careful; industrious.
5. (informal) Very bad, poor.

Concepts

painful

sick

sore

distressing

bitter

aching

grevious

hurt

pain

suffer

ache

difficult

excruciating

unpleasant

suffering

hard

heavy

agonizing

afflictive

tough

ill

arduous

hurtful

trying

distressful

disagreeable

burdensome

hurting

sad

grievous

miserable

troublesome

oppressive

suffocating

poignant

sharp

irritating

abominable

atrocious

awful

dreadful

terrible

unspeakable

smarting

onerous

tiresome

hot

raw

tender

deplorable

pathetic

pitiable

pitiful

bleak

challenging

depressing

dismal

exacting

formidable

saddening

inflame

smart

heart-breaking

moving

touching

offended

detrimental

ihjurious

harmful

tormenting

damaging

injurious

worrying

apprehensible

felt

perceptible

sensible

corrosive

inflicting wounds

ill-omened

unpropitious

causing trouble

diseased

agonized

cruel

evil

fell

racking

troublous

numerous

strong

baleful

baneful

become

burning sensation

be painful

intense

sour

bruising

peaked

poorly

sickly

cumbersome

gruelling

straining

strenuous

tiring

vexing

backbreaking

drudging

heavy-duty

laboring

labouring

leaden

lumbering

plodding

ponderous

toiling

weighted

weighty

agonising

wrenching

laboured

operose

adverse

harsh

heartbreaking

salty

spicy

pained

tedious

causing pain

stinging

stung

inadequate

achy

conjunctivitis

acute

afflicting

pang

travail

wound

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpeɪn.fəl/

Etymology

From Middle English paynful, peinful, peynful, paynefull, peynefull, equivalent to pain + -ful. Compare Danish pinefuld (“painful”).

Sentences

It is one of the most painful conditions and can result in depression .