Category: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"ful*ly, adv. -- pain"ful*ness, n.