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

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  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. j:100 a. causing physical or psychological pain