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

1. adjective. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
2. adjective. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
3. adjective. Painstaking; careful; industrious.
4. adjective. causing physical discomfort

   "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"

   Synonyms: irritating

5. adjective. exceptionally bad or displeasing

   "atrocious taste"

   "abominable workmanship"

   Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable

6. adjective. causing physical or psychological pain

   "worked with painful slowness"

7. adjective. causing misery or pain or distress

   "it was a sore trial to him"

   "the painful process of growing up"

   Synonyms: afflictive, sore

Synonyms

irritating, abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable, afflictive, sore

Common word forms

painfully, painfuller, painfullest, painfulness

Words from these letters

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