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English Dictionary: painful	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for painful
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
painful adj causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness" Antonym(s): painless causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up" Synonym(s): afflictive, painful, sore 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" Synonym(s): atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful" Synonym(s): irritating, painful
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Painful \Pain"ful\, a. 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"fully}, adv. -- {Pain"fulness}, n.