Adjective

• S: (adj) painful (causing physical or psychological pain) "worked with painful slowness"
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• W: (n) painfulness [Related to: painful] (emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid) "the pain of loneliness"
• W: (n) painfulness [Related to: painful] (the quality of being painful) "she feared the painfulness of childbirth"
• S: (adj) afflictive, painful, sore (causing misery or pain or distress) "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"
• S: (adj) atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable (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"
• S: (adj) irritating, painful (causing physical discomfort) "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"