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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
painful
adj 1: causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with
painful slowness" [ant: painless]
2: causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to
him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: afflictive,
painful, sore]
3: 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]
4: causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more
than irritating; they can be very painful" [syn:
irritating, painful]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Painful \Pain"ful\, a.
1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either
physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
--Addison.
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2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with
laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
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3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer.
Taylor.
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Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden.
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Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing;
grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous.
[1913 Webster] -- Pain"ful*ly, adv. --
Pain"ful*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
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Thesaurus Results for painful:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Herculean, 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, 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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Common Misspellings > |
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