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painful

[peyn-fuhl]

adjective

  1. affected with, causing, or characterized by pain.

    a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.

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  2. laborious; exacting; difficult.

    a painful life.

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  3. Archaic.painstaking; careful.



painful

/ ˈɪԴʊ /

adjective

  1. causing pain; distressing

    a painful duty

  2. affected with pain

    a painful leg

  3. tedious or difficult

  4. informalextremely bad

    a painful performance

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • painfully adverb
  • painfulness noun
  • overpainful adjective
  • overpainfully adverb
  • overpainfulness noun
  • unpainful adjective
  • unpainfully adverb
  • ˈ貹Դڳܱ adverb
  • ˈ貹ԴڳܱԱ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of painful1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; pain, -ful
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Daylight Tuesday brought a starkly different scene: volunteers scrubbing graffiti from the exterior of the museum, which highlights the painful lessons of Japanese Americans’ mass incarceration during World War II.

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In 1989, newly elected Baseball Commissioner A. Bart Giamatti, a retired Yale University president and English Renaissance literature scholar, banned Rose for life after an investigation that proved painful for both men.

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“With this crime, the Zionist regime has prepared a bitter and painful fate for itself — and it will undoubtedly face it,” he said, according to a statement released to local media.

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“There is no doubt that this is a painful and significant change to our organization and a challenge to CHLA’s mission, vision, and values,” hospital executives wrote to staff in a Thursday morning email.

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“When federal immigration enforcement actions take place in communities that may reflect your own heritage, neighborhoods, or even your family’s story, it can create a deep and painful conflict,” he wrote.

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