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Synonyms for painful
ˈpeɪn fəlpainful
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
painful
Synonyms:
depressing, disappointing, distressing, hateful, horrible, melancholy, miserable, mournful, saddening, woful, wretchedAntonyms:
acceptable, agreeable, congenial, delicious, delightful, grateful, gratifying, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, satisfying, welcome
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
painful
Synonyms:
afflicting, distressful, grieving, grievous, excruciating
Princeton's WordNet
painfuladjective
causing physical or psychological pain
"worked with painful slowness"
Synonyms:
irritating, terrible, unspeakable, awful, afflictive, atrocious, abominable, sore, dreadfulAntonyms:
unpainful, good, painless, pain-free, comfortable, comfy, pleasantafflictive, painful, soreadjective
causing misery or pain or distress
"it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"
Synonyms:
mad, irritating, sensitive, huffy, raw, terrible, unspeakable, tender, awful, afflictive, atrocious, abominable, sore, dreadfulAntonyms:
comfortable, comfy, pleasant, good, painless, pain-free, unpainfulatrocious, 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"
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, uglyAntonyms:
comfortable, painless, comfy, pain-free, good, pleasant, unpainfulirritating, painfuladjective
causing physical discomfort
"bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
Synonyms:
nettlesome, annoying, afflictive, teasing, plaguy, vexing, vexatious, galling, irritative, abominable, bothersome, awful, unspeakable, plaguey, atrocious, pestiferous, terrible, pesky, dreadful, pestering, sore, irritatingAntonyms:
pain-free, painless, comfy, unpainful, comfortable, pleasant, good
Dictionary of English Synonymes
painfuladjective
Synonyms:
tormenting, torturing, agonizing, racking, distressing, distressful, excruciatingpainfuladjective
Synonyms:
grievous, afflicting, afflictive, disquieting, troublesome, displeasing, provoking, annoying, vexatious, unpleasant, disagreeablepainfuladjective
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
painfuladjective
Synonyms:
distressing, agonizing, excruciating, dolorous, racking, toilsome, arduous, difficult
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "painful":
distressing, bitter, agonizing, sore, embarrassing, harrowing, sad, grievous, hurtful, difficult, dire, laborious, painstaking, arduous
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How to use painful in a sentence?
It’s still very painful. It’s still very hurtful, charlie and I, we have worked together, been friends. But when you think about the anguish of those women, despite the friendship, you still have to report the news.
It's very painful, of course, because they don't only get sick, they die. And that is so completely preventable.
When you understand the soul of black America and you understand how important iconography is and you understand how important the image of black family perfection ... is, you realize that there's no way to do something like this without it being hugely conversational, if not confrontational, and in many cases painful for people.
I had considered telling somebody ; telling an adult outside of the ashram, but the idea of what would happen if I did was just too painful to accept.
My mother died a painful death from salmonella, and the look of horror on her face as she died shall always haunt me, i just hope they ship you all to jail.
Translations for painful
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- مؤلمArabic
- балю́чыBelarusian
- dolorósCatalan, Valencian
- smertefuldDanish
- schmerzhaftGerman
- επίπονος, επώδυνοςGreek
- dolorido, dolorosoSpanish
- kipeä, rasittava, työläs, tuskallinen, kivulias, raskasFinnish
- douloureux, laborieux, pénibleFrench
- fáradságos, nehéz, fájdalmasHungarian
- dolorosoItalian
- 骨の折れる, 困難, 苦しいJapanese
- laboriosusLatin
- tārū, tārūrūMāori
- pijnlijk, ijverig, moeizaam, smartelijk, zorgzaamDutch
- bolesnyPolish
- extenuante, árduoPortuguese
- тяжёлый, тягостный, тяжкий, болезненный, мучительныйRussian
- smärtsamSwedish
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