painful

Adjective

• Causing discomfort, suffering, or distress.
• causing physical or psychological pain
  • "worked with painful slowness"

Adjective Satellite

• causing misery or pain or distress
  • "the painful process of growing up"
• exceptionally bad or displeasing
  • "a painful performance"
• causing physical discomfort
  • "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"

Adj

• Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
• Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
• Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
• Painstaking; careful; industrious.
• Very bad, poor.

Examples

• His violin playing is painful.
• Losing by one point in Words With Friends is a truly PAINFUL experience.

Synonyms

abominable, afflictive, atrocious, awful, dreadful, irritating, sore, terrible, unspeakable, achesome, aching, achy, agonizing, ailsome, annoying, doleful, excruciating, exerting, griefful, groanful, hurt, hurtful, hurty, irksome, laborious, painable, pained, painfilled, painful, raw, smartful, smarting, sorrowful, suffering, tender, tormented, tormenting, tormentous, torturous, unpleasant, wrenchful

Antonyms

painless, acheless, agreeable, pain-free, painfree, pleasant, unaching

Related Words

agonizing