painlike

English

Etymology

pain +‎ -like

Adjective

painlike (comparative more painlike, superlative most painlike)

1. Resembling pain.
   • 1981, Raimond Emmers, Pain — a spike-interval coded message in the brain:

     As the duration lengthens beyond 80 msec, the painlike quality of the sensation decreases.

   • 1993, Neal O Weiner, The harmony of the soul: mental health and moral virtue reconsidered:

     But if the sexual urge is continually frustrated, the whole business becomes more truly painlike, and few would choose that condition over indifference.