Synonyms for painful

Grammar : Adj

Spell : peyn-fuhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpeɪn fəl

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Définition of painful

Origin : mid-14c., from pain (n.) + -ful. Related: Painfully; painfulness.

adj physically or mentally agonizing

Example sentences :

Silence was painful to me, and reply only accumulated difficulty and vexation.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

Now he scanned the trees on the edge of the clearing with painful anxiety.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

The circumstances were painful, but added a dramatic touch to the scene.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

He had been shot in the most painful place in the body—the palm of the hand.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

And in the painful cleaning of the wound he did not murmur once.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

How the teams were to accomplish this, it was painful to consider.
Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell

Where it is most painful is precisely where it does most harm, among the classes we call professional.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

Of course he ought; but the painful fact to meet just now, was that he had not done his duty.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

It is a painful truth that by daylight he was ashamed of his part of the transaction.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

Though he strove to put confidence into his words, his painful doubt was manifest.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

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