PAINFUL

painful. Painful, a. full of pain, afflictive, difficult, hard

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Pain″ful (?), a. 1. 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. Addison.
2. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
3. 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. Fuller.
A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden. Syn. — Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. — Pain″ful‐ly, adv. — Pain″ful‐ness, n.