Thesaurus: painful

Related headwords

Definitions

1. a. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
2. a. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
3. a. Painstaking; careful; industrious.
4. adj. causing physical or psychological pain
5. adj. causing misery or pain or distress
6. adj. exceptionally bad or displeasing
7. adj. causing physical discomfort
8. 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden. Syn. -- Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. -- Pain"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n.
9. j:100 a. causing physical or psychological pain