Word Meanings - PAINFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: PAINFUL

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. 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"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PAINFUL)

• Grievous
• Sad
• heavy
• afflictive
• lamentable
• deplorable
• sorrowful
• painful
• burdensome
• calamitous
• baleful
• hurtful
• disastrous
• unhappy
• Sore
• Painful
• irritated
• susceptible
• excoriated
• raw
• scarified
• ulcerous
• grievous

Related words: (words related to PAINFUL)

• HURTFUL
  Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
• SCARIFIER
  The instrument used for scarifying. (more info) 1. One who scarifies.
• SCARIFICATOR
  An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• DEPLORABLENESS
  State of being deplorable.
• BALEFULNESS
  The quality or state of being baleful.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• SCARIFICATION
  The act of scarifying.
• PAINFUL
  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;
• DISASTROUS
  1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous
• IRRITATION
  The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial
• BALEFULLY
  In a baleful manner; perniciously.
• IRRITATE
  To render null and void. Abp. Bramhall.
• EXCORIATE
  To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.
• GRIEVOUS
  1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. The famine was grievous in the land. Gen. xii. 10. The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. Gen. xxi 11. 2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous;
• BURDENSOME
  Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton. Syn. -- Heavy; weighty; cumbersome; onerous; grievous; oppressive; troublesome. -- Bur"den*some*ly, adv. -- Bur"den*some*ness,
• CALAMITOUS
  1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. Ten thousands of calamitous persons. South. 2. Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. "This sad and calamitous condition." South. "A calamitous
• SORROWFUL
  1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
• DEPLORABLE
  Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• INIRRITATIVE
  Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. E. Darwin.
• COUNTERIRRITATE
  To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.
• ABIRRITATION
  A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.