painful

adjectives

causing physical or psychological pain

"worked with painful slowness"

painful

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painfulness

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painfulness

antonym

painless

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causing a dull and steady pain

"my aching head"; "her old achy joints"

aching, achy

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expressing pain or agony

"agonized screams"

agonised, agonized

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extremely painful

agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous

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causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

"bitter cold"; "a biting wind"

biting, bitter

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painful from having the skin abraded

chafed, galled

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keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

"poignant anxiety"

poignant

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causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch

"he had an itchy toe from the mosquito bite"

itchy

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causing great physical or mental suffering

"a wrenching pain"

racking, wrenching

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(of a rider) sore after riding a horse

saddle-sore

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hurting

"the tender spot on his jaw"

raw, sensitive, sore, tender

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psychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child";

traumatic

see also

lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion

"humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used"

inhumane

causing misery or pain or distress

"it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

afflictive, painful, sore

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painfulness

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"

abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable

causing physical discomfort

"bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"

irritating, painful

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painfulness