What is another word for painful?
491 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pˈe͡ɪnfə͡l], [ pˈeɪnfəl], [ p_ˈeɪ_n_f_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for painful:
- all (adjective)
- anguishing (adjective)
- arduous (adjective)
- awkward (adjective)
- bad (adjective)
- burning (adjective)
- cruel (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- distasteful (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- doleful (adjective)
- dolorous (adjective)
- galling (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- harrowing (adjective)
- insufferable (adjective)
- onerous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- painful (adjective)
- physically or mentally agonizing (adjective)
- piercing (adjective)
- sensitive (adjective)
- sore (adjective)
- sorrowful (adjective)
- sticky (adjective)
- tragic (adjective)
- troublesome (adjective)
- unpalatable (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- upsetting (adjective)
- violent (adjective)
- aching (noun)
- achy (noun)
- afflictive (noun)
- agonised (noun)
- agonising (noun)
- agonized (noun)
- agonizing (noun)
- atrocious (noun)
- biting (noun)
- bitter (noun)
- chafed (noun)
- dreadful (noun)
- excruciating (noun)
- galled (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- painful (noun)
- saddle-sore (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- congested
- exhausting
- insufferable
- sore
Synonyms for Painful:
adj.
• all (adjective) • anguishing (adjective) • arduous (adjective)- harsh,
- strenuous,
- rough,
- rigorous,
- labored,
- formidable,
- tough,
- burdensome,
- tiring,
- murder,
- backbreaking,
- taxing,
- Fatiguing,
- grueling,
- uphill,
- toilsome,
- exhausting,
- heavy,
- punishing.
- ill at ease,
- untimely,
- perplexing,
- delicate,
- compromising,
- inopportune,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- inconvenient.
- fierce,
- heartless,
- depraved,
- hellish,
- poignant,
- barbarous,
- sadistic,
- implacable,
- monstrous,
- unfeeling,
- hateful,
- revengeful,
- inhuman,
- spiteful,
- wicked,
- bestial,
- pernicious,
- unnatural,
- inexorable,
- unrelenting,
- ruthless,
- merciless,
- ferocious,
- virulent,
- cold-blooded,
- callous,
- degenerate,
- vengeful,
- malevolent,
- evil,
- flinty,
- tyrannical,
- brutal,
- unkind,
- relentless,
- vicious,
- bloodthirsty,
- sinful,
- rancorous.
- galling,
- backbreaker,
- stiff,
- crucial,
- not easy,
- herculean,
- gargantuan,
- exacting,
- Difficile,
- demanding,
- bothersome,
- challenging,
- upstream,
- prohibitive,
- up-stream,
- Operose,
- easier said than done,
- ambitious,
- unyielding,
- titanic,
- hard-won,
- problematic,
- problem,
- wearisome,
- immense,
- effortful,
- intricate,
- rigid.
- loathsome,
- repugnant,
- abominable,
- offensive,
- abhorrent,
- yucky,
- tasteless,
- insipid,
- flavorless,
- unsavory,
- icky,
- obnoxious,
- repellent,
- flat,
- objectionable,
- unappetizing,
- detestable,
- displeasing,
- undesirable,
- uninviting,
- odious,
- nauseous.
- dis-composing,
- most dismaying,
- more dismaying,
- de-pressing,
- most impeding,
- dis-maying,
- dis-concerting,
- dis maying,
- most discommoding,
- dis composing,
- troubling,
- de pressing,
- more troubling,
- more discomposing,
- most troubling,
- most discomposing,
- most foreboding,
- impeding,
- more impeding,
- more foreboding,
- most disconcerting,
- more discommoding,
- more agitating,
- most agitating,
- fore boding,
- dis concerting,
- fore-boding,
- more disconcerting.
- down,
- wretched,
- lamentable,
- dejected,
- Dolent,
- downcast,
- down in the mouth,
- doleful,
- somber,
- depressed,
- cast down,
- crestfallen,
- plaintive,
- gloomy,
- down in mouth,
- woebegone,
- Dirgeful,
- afflicted,
- melancholy,
- lugubrious,
- woeful,
- funereal,
- forlorn,
- rueful,
- downhearted,
- dispirited,
- dreary,
- grieving.
- more tearing,
- most tearing,
- more traumatic,
- most traumatic,
- nerve racking,
- nerveracking,
- most racking,
- most torturing,
- more racking,
- more torturing,
- torturing.
- in-sufferable,
- in supportable,
- un acceptable,
- un-endurable,
- un bearable,
- un-speakable,
- unspeakable,
- un-acceptable,
- un-bearable,
- un endurable,
- un speakable,
- in sufferable,
- in-supportable.
- more overtaxing,
- more crushing,
- most overtaxing,
- more headache,
- over-taxing,
- most plodding,
- more embittering,
- most headache,
- over taxing,
- more plodding,
- over-powering,
- most crushing,
- over powering,
- most embittering.
- harmful,
- in sorrow,
- distasteful,
- disturbing,
- a bit much,
- in pain,
- prickling,
- head ache,
- grody,
- piercing,
- nasty,
- Infestive,
- yicky,
- full of sorrow,
- dislikable,
- burning,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- violent,
- Dolorific,
- sorrowful,
- arduous,
- troublous,
- dolorous,
- insufferable,
- cruel,
- overtaxing,
- anguished,
- awkward,
- perturbing,
- inhumane,
- brutish,
- onerous,
- savorless,
- Hard-hearted,
- coldblooded,
- demoniac,
- ulcerated,
- sick at heart,
- sensitive,
- Rankling,
- unlikable,
- heart-rending,
- anguishing,
- troublesome,
- upsetting,
- Dolesome,
- in mourning,
- difficult,
- Stentorious,
- no picnic,
- sticky,
- unsettling,
- singing the blues,
- distressing,
- traumatic,
- intolerable,
- tragic.
- Cramping,
- horrendous,
- miserable,
- Irksome,
- disagreeable,
- withering,
- crushing,
- tormenting,
- inflaming,
- aggravating,
- uncomfortable,
- oppressive,
- hurtful,
- annoying,
- throbbing,
- stinging,
- smarting,
- Besetting,
- chafing,
- stabbing,
- severe,
- unpleasant,
- grievous,
- cutting,
- acute,
- trying,
- unbearable,
- Gnawing,
- wrenching,
- distressful.
- hurting,
- extreme,
- caustic,
- dire,
- raw,
- laborious,
- sharp,
- tedious,
- vexatious,
- saddening,
- extremely bad,
- irritated.
- high pitched,
- roaring,
- more numbing,
- most stentorious,
- more shattering,
- more shooting,
- knifelike,
- most shattering,
- most shooting,
- more stentorious,
- most numbing,
- numbing,
- highpitched.
- more abscessed,
- pained,
- more ulcerated,
- in-flamed,
- most ulcerated,
- most abscessed,
- in flamed,
- more reddened,
- most chafed,
- more bruised,
- most reddened,
- more chafed,
- most bruised,
- more hurting.
- full sorrow,
- tearjerking,
- sick heart,
- un happiest,
- un happy,
- un-happy,
- singing blues,
- un happier,
- tearful,
- heavy hearted,
- tear jerking.
- illstarred,
- ill starred,
- de-solate,
- more anguished,
- most anguished,
- un fortunate,
- ill fated,
- illfated,
- ill-starred,
- de solate,
- un-fortunate.
n.
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- like.
- achy.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- humiliating,
- toe-curling,
- nagging,
- unfortunate,
- depressing,
- ignominious,
- heartbreaking,
- piteous,
- ignoble,
- discouraging,
- mournful,
- regrettable,
- melting,
- sadly,
- elegiac,
- soul-destroying,
- unhappy,
- disheartening,
- lachrymose,
- pitiable,
- inglorious,
- shameful,
- gut-wrenching,
- cheerless,
- undignified,
- shattering,
- affecting,
- mortifying,
- moody,
- grim,
- unseemly.
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- dreaded,
- touching,
- pathetic,
- dismal,
- bittersweet,
- indigestible,
- pitiful,
- sentimental,
- embarrassed.
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- unpalatable,
- dark,
- embarrassing.
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- black.
- lame.
Paraphrases for Painful:
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Adjective
annoying, awful, challenging, complicated, cruel, damaging, daunting, difficult, dire, disastrous, disgraceful, dismal, distressed, dramatic, dreadful, excruciating, grim, harmful, horrendous, horrible, lamentable, misery, nasty, painless, problematic, regrettable, sensitive, serious, severe, shameful, shocking, terrible, troubled, unattractive.
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Adjective
acrimonious, agonizing, appalling, arduous, awkward, bitter, burdensome, cumbersome, deplorable, depressing, devastating, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, disturbing, embarrassing, frustrating, galling, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heavy-handed, hurtful, inconvenient, laborious, miserable, onerous, pain, painstaking, pathetic, pitiful, poignant, sad, saddening, sore, sorrowful, strenuous, stressful, tedious, thorny, tiresome, tortuous, tough, tragic, traumatic, troublesome, troubling, ugly, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unpleasant, uphill, upsetting, woeful, time-consuming.
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Proper noun, singular
pain.
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Adjective
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