Painful word meaning and definition

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• Synonyms for painful
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Meaning and definition for "painful" word

[adjective] causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
[adjective] 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"
[adjective] causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness"
[adjective] causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

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\Pain"ful\, a. 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. --Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --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.

Synonyms for painful

abominable, aching, achy, afflictive, agonised, agonising, agonized, agonizing, atrocious, awful, bad, biting, bitter, burning, chafed, dreadful, excruciating, galled, harrowing, irritating, poignant, racking, saddle-sore, sensitive, smarting, sore, tender, terrible, torturesome, torturing, torturous, traumatic, uncomfortable, unpleasant, unspeakable, wrenching

Antonyms: painless

Related terms: aggravating, atrocious, bitter, cruel, demanding, diligent, dolorous, gnawing, grievous, harassing, hard-earned, hard-fought, harrowing, irksome, joyless, laborious, mournful, punishing, spasmic, strained, strenuous, troubling

The fun area, different aproach to word »painful«

Let's analyse "painful" as pure text. This string has Seven letters in Two syllables and Three vowels. 42.9% of vowels is 4.3% more then average English word. Written in backwards: LUFNIAP. Average typing speed for these characters is 1930 milliseconds. [info]

Morse code: .--. .- .. -. ..-. ..- .-..

Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: painful: 1 + 9 + 3 = 13, reduced: 4 . and the final result is Four.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: painful: 7 + 1 + 9 + 5 + 6 + 3 + 3 = 34, reduced: 7, and the final result is Seven.

Tarot cards

Letter	Num.	Tarot c.	Meaning
A (1)	1	Magician	Creative, Inventive, Intuitive
F (1)	6	Lovers	Practical, Faithful, Organizer
I (1)	9	Hermit	Independent, Researcher, Intell,igent
L (1)	12	Hanged Man	Leader, Teacher, Healer, Decisive
N (1)	14	Temperance	Healer, Wise, Survivor, Crafty
P (1)	16	Tower	Craftsman, Laborer, Builder
U (1)	21	World	Gifted, Generous, Bountiful

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