Adjective: painful peyn-ful
- Causing physical or psychological pain
"worked with painful slowness"
- Causing misery, pain or distress
"the painful process of growing up";
- afflictive, sore
- Exceptionally bad or displeasing
"a painful performance";
- atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable, horrible
- Causing physical discomfort
"bites of black flies are more than irritating: they can be very painful";
- irritating
See also: aching, achy, agonised [Brit], agonising [Brit], agonized, agonizing, bad, biting, bitter, chafed, excruciating, galled, harmful, harrowing, inhumane, itchy, poignant, racking, raw, saddle-sore, sensitive, sore, tender, torturesome, torturing, torturous, traumatic, uncomfortable, unpleasant, wrenching
Antonym: painless
Encyclopedia: Painful