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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?
The pandemic has been a reset to how a lot of families think about family life and what matters, it's been painful, and we've lost things in it, but I think we've also gained something so important... more connection with the people that matter the most to us.
In some cases organizations are a little too ready to transfer this kind of risk through insurance. They think that that's a real healthy backstop and they can avoid doing some of the other, more painful investments in security.
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.
I lost relatives and friends to the pandemic. The prayer meetings through virtual calls were so painful.
This is very painful, especially since the players have made a huge effort, it was a very, very difficult game, the players gave everything on the pitch but they have not achieve the goal here in Russia.
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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