Painful

Adjective

 * 1) Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
 * 2) Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
 * 3) Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
 * 4)  Painstaking; careful; industrious.
 * 5) * 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 142:
 * The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.
 * 1) * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2
 * For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle

Synonyms

 * doleful, sorrowful, irksome, annoying
 * laborious, exerting

Antonyms

 * painless, painfree

Derived terms

 * painfully
 * painfulness

Adverbs for Painful
distressingly; terribly; intolerably; slightly; dreadfully; noticeably; apparently; excruciatingly, pitiably; unexpectedly; rackingly; intensely; acutely; extraordinarily; extremely; inordinately; unavoidably; moderately; bitterly; grievously; uncomfortably; unaccountably; pathetically; tremendously; deucediy.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From.

Translations

 * Czech: bolestivý ;  bolestný
 * Danish: smertefuld
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: επίπονος, αλγεινός
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 痛みの伴う
 * Old French:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: smärtsam


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: laborieux
 * Greek: επίπονος
 * Hungarian: fáradságos, nehéz


 * Japanese: 苦しい, ; 骨の折れる
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Dutch:, ijverig, zorgzaam


 * : jandar, biêş, êşdar, biazar, biezyet
 * Cyrillic: болно
 * Roman: bolno
 * : ağrılı
 * : ağrılı