Dictionary Entry
painful
painful is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
- 2adjective
Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
- 3adjective
Painstaking; careful; industrious.
- 4adjective
causing physical discomfort
"bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
Synonyms
- 5adjective
exceptionally bad or displeasing
"atrocious taste"
"abominable workmanship"
- 6adjective
causing physical or psychological pain
"worked with painful slowness"
- 7adjective
causing misery or pain or distress
"it was a sore trial to him"
"the painful process of growing up"
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