painful
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painful (comparative more painful, superlative most painful)
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- Full of pain; causing hurt, uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
- Requiring effort, labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
- (archaic) Painstaking; careful; industrious
- 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
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2
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- (full of pain): doleful, sorrowful, irksome, annoying
- (requiring labor or toil): laborious, exerting
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full of pain
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requiring labor or toil
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