Antonyms for painful
ˈpeɪn fəlpainful

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1. painfuladjective

   Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.

   Antonyms:
   painfree, painless

2. painfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   doleful, irksome, sorrowful, annoying

3. painfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   laborious, exerting

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1. painful

   Antonyms:
   acceptable, agreeable, congenial, delicious, delightful, grateful, gratifying, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, satisfying, welcome

   Synonyms:
   depressing, disappointing, distressing, hateful, horrible, melancholy, miserable, mournful, saddening, woful, wretched

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1. painful

   Synonyms:
   afflicting, distressful, grieving, grievous, excruciating

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. painfuladjective

   causing physical or psychological pain

   "worked with painful slowness"

   Antonyms:
   unpainful, good, painless, pain-free, comfortable, comfy, pleasant

   Synonyms:
   irritating, terrible, unspeakable, awful, afflictive, atrocious, abominable, sore, dreadful

2. afflictive, painful, soreadjective

   causing misery or pain or distress

   "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

   Antonyms:
   comfortable, comfy, pleasant, good, painless, pain-free, unpainful

   Synonyms:
   mad, irritating, sensitive, huffy, raw, terrible, unspeakable, tender, awful, afflictive, atrocious, abominable, sore, dreadful

3. atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakableadjective

   exceptionally bad or displeasing

   "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

   Antonyms:
   comfortable, painless, comfy, pain-free, good, pleasant, unpainful

   Synonyms:
   irritating, dreadful, indescribable, indefinable, awful, sore, odious, unnameable, execrable, horrifying, frightful, amazing, horrendous, severe, tremendous, dreaded, dire, afflictive, flagitious, grievous, monstrous, atrocious, ineffable, detestable, awing, awed, wicked, dread(a), awe-inspiring, unspeakable, horrific, nasty, terrible, horrible, abominable, frightening, unutterable, awesome, fearsome, fearful, direful, untellable, ugly

4. irritating, painfuladjective

   causing physical discomfort

   "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"

   Antonyms:
   pain-free, painless, comfy, unpainful, comfortable, pleasant, good

   Synonyms:
   nettlesome, annoying, afflictive, teasing, plaguy, vexing, vexatious, galling, irritative, abominable, bothersome, awful, unspeakable, plaguey, atrocious, pestiferous, terrible, pesky, dreadful, pestering, sore, irritating

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1. painfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   distressing, agonizing, excruciating, dolorous, racking, toilsome, arduous, difficult

How to use painful in a sentence?

1. Jude Buckley:

   Our heritage is technology, and we have a very fierce competitor who has done an amazing job over many, many years, and if your technology, if your value proposition is based in technology, you’ve always gotta be at the forefront. If you were the first to go to every two years, that’d be a painful two years.

2. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray:

   This is a difficult moment in our nation's history, the conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

3. Carlos Curbelo:

   Carlos Curbelo mentioned that Carlos Curbelo daughter Ivanka had encouraged Carlos Curbelo to end this, and he said Carlos Curbelo does recognize that it needs to end and the images are painful and Carlos Curbelo's looking for a legislative solution, carlos Curbelo discussed the optics and the policy itself and I think Carlos Curbelo's not comfortable with either.

4. unknown:

   A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit.

5. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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