What is another word for painful?
845 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ p_ˈeɪ_n_f_əl], [ pˈe͡ɪnfə͡l], [ pˈeɪnfəl]Synonyms for Painful:
adj.
•arduous (adjective)- backbreaking,
- burdensome,
- exhausting,
- formidable,
- grueling,
- harsh,
- heavy,
- labored,
- onerous,
- punishing,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- strenuous,
- taxing,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- uphill,
- Fatiguing,
- no picnic.
- bothersome,
- demanding,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- galling,
- immense,
- intricate,
- problematic,
- stiff,
- wearisome,
- Operose.
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- detestable,
- displeasing,
- loathsome,
- nauseous,
- objectionable,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- repugnant,
- unappetizing,
- undesirable,
- uninviting,
- unpalatable,
- unsavory.
- cheerless,
- dismal,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- lamentable,
- melancholy,
- mournful,
- piteous,
- pitiful,
- rueful,
- sad,
- sorrowful,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched.
- aching,
- acute,
- aggravating,
- agonizing,
- annoying,
- arduous,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- chafing,
- cruel,
- crushing,
- cutting,
- disagreeable,
- distressful,
- excruciating,
- grievous,
- grueling,
- harrowing,
- horrendous,
- hurtful,
- inflaming,
- insufferable,
- irritating,
- miserable,
- odious,
- offensive,
- oppressive,
- piercing,
- severe,
- smarting,
- sore,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- throbbing,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- unbearable,
- uncomfortable,
- unpleasant,
- withering,
- woeful,
- wrenching,
- Besetting,
- Gnawing,
- Irksome,
- tormenting,
- Cramping,
- anguishing,
- torturing.
- aching,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- arduous,
- awful,
- biting,
- burning,
- caustic,
- difficult,
- dire,
- disagreeable,
- distasteful,
- distressing,
- dreadful,
- excruciating,
- extreme,
- grievous,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- inflamed,
- irritated,
- laborious,
- piercing,
- raw,
- saddening,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- sharp,
- smarting,
- sore,
- stinging,
- tedious,
- tender,
- terrible,
- throbbing,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- uncomfortable,
- unpleasant,
- vexatious,
- tormenting,
- extremely bad.
- bad.
n.
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- angry,
- burned,
- caustic,
- chapped,
- chronic,
- comfortable,
- crippling,
- distressing,
- extreme,
- healthy,
- inflamed,
- irritable,
- irritated,
- sharp.
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- depressing,
- dismal,
- distasteful,
- disturbing,
- heartbreaking,
- sad,
- tragic,
- unhappy,
- upsetting,
- worrying.
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- awkward,
- embarrassed,
- embarrassing,
- guilty,
- humiliating,
- ignominious,
- nagging,
- pain,
- shameful,
- undignified,
- unfortunate.
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- indigestible,
- like,
- unpalatable.
- abominable,
- aching,
- achy,
- afflictive,
- agonised,
- agonising,
- agonized,
- agonizing,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- biting,
- bitter,
- burning,
- chafed,
- dreadful,
- excruciating,
- galled,
- harrowing,
- irritating,
- poignant,
- racking,
- sensitive,
- smarting,
- sore,
- tender,
- terrible,
- torturesome,
- torturous,
- traumatic,
- uncomfortable,
- unpleasant,
- unspeakable,
- wrenching.
Other synonyms:
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- affecting,
- cheerless,
- depressing,
- difficult,
- disheartening,
- grim,
- heartbreaking,
- humiliating,
- ignominious,
- melting,
- moody,
- mournful,
- nagging,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- regrettable,
- sadly,
- shameful,
- shattering,
- soul-destroying,
- undignified,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- upsetting.
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- dark,
- embarrassing,
- unpalatable.
- lame.
- abdicate,
- abhor,
- abhorrent,
- abide,
- abominable,
- abominate,
- abusive,
- accept,
- achy,
- acutely,
- adversity,
- affected,
- affecting,
- affliction,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- agonised,
- agonising,
- agonize,
- agonized,
- agony,
- ailment,
- alarming,
- allow,
- amazing,
- angry,
- anguish,
- annoyance,
- ardently,
- assiduous,
- atrocious,
- austere,
- awe-inspiring,
- awed,
- awesome,
- awful,
- awing,
- awkward,
- backbreaking,
- bad,
- badly,
- base,
- bitterly,
- black,
- bleak,
- blue,
- bumpy,
- burned,
- burning,
- calamitous,
- careful,
- caustic,
- chafed,
- chapped,
- cheerless,
- chilling,
- chronic,
- comfortable,
- comfortless,
- complex,
- complicated,
- condition,
- conscientious,
- considerable,
- consuming,
- controversial,
- correctly,
- corvee,
- crippling,
- critical,
- cruelly,
- damaging,
- dark,
- daunting,
- deep,
- deeply,
- deficiency,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- deprivation,
- detailed,
- detest,
- detestable,
- devastating,
- difficult,
- diligent,
- dire,
- direful,
- disastrous,
- disconcerting,
- disease,
- disgusting,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disorder,
- displeasing,
- disquieting,
- distasteful,
- distress,
- distressing,
- distressingly,
- disturbing,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- draconian,
- drastic,
- dread,
- dreaded,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- eagerly,
- earnest,
- earnestly,
- effortful,
- embarrassed,
- embarrassing,
- endure,
- enormous,
- enormously,
- exacting,
- exactly,
- exasperating,
- exceptionable,
- excessive,
- execrable,
- exhausting,
- exorbitant,
- exposed,
- exquisite,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- extremely,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- fierce,
- fiercely,
- firmly,
- flagitious,
- forbidding,
- forced,
- formidable,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- galled,
- galling,
- ghastly,
- grave,
- gravely,
- grim,
- grotesque,
- gruelling,
- guilty,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-fought,
- hardly,
- hardship,
- harmful,
- harsh,
- harshly,
- hate,
- have,
- healthy,
- heartbreaking,
- heartfelt,
- heartily,
- heartrending,
- heavily,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- heinous,
- hideous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- huffy,
- huge,
- humiliating,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- ignominious,
- illness,
- immense,
- imperfect,
- indefinable,
- indescribable,
- indigestible,
- ineffable,
- inflamed,
- inhumane,
- injured,
- injurious,
- insupportable,
- intense,
- intensely,
- intolerable,
- intricate,
- involved,
- irritable,
- irritated,
- irritative,
- itchy,
- joyless,
- keen,
- keenly,
- knotty,
- labored,
- laborious,
- laboured,
- lack,
- lame,
- lamentable,
- leave,
- like,
- loathe,
- loathsome,
- loss,
- mad,
- madly,
- major,
- mean,
- melancholy,
- melting,
- merciless,
- meretricious,
- meticulous,
- misfortune,
- monstrous,
- moody,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nagging,
- nasty,
- nauseous,
- necessity,
- nerve-racking,
- nerve-wracking,
- nettlesome,
- nociceptive,
- nuisance,
- objectionable,
- obnoxious,
- onerous,
- open,
- overwhelming,
- pain,
- painfully,
- painfulness,
- painstaking,
- paltry,
- paroxysmal,
- particular,
- pathetic,
- pay,
- penetrating,
- perilous,
- permit,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- picnic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaguey,
- plaguy,
- poignant,
- poorly,
- poverty,
- prickling,
- prickly,
- privation,
- problematic,
- profound,
- pungent,
- pungently,
- punishing,
- punitive,
- racking,
- raw,
- recede,
- receive,
- redoubtable,
- regrettable,
- repellant,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- resign,
- retire,
- revolting,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- roughly,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sadly,
- scratchy,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- sensational,
- sensitive,
- serious,
- seriously,
- severely,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- sharply,
- shattering,
- shocking,
- shooting,
- sickness,
- smart,
- sorely,
- soreness,
- sorrowful,
- soul-destroying,
- sour,
- sourly,
- spasmodic,
- spine,
- stand,
- stern,
- sternly,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stormily,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- stressful,
- stringent,
- strong,
- strongly,
- suffer,
- swingeing,
- tangled,
- tart,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- tedious,
- tender,
- terrible,
- terribly,
- terrific,
- terrifying,
- testing,
- thankless,
- thorn,
- thorny,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- thumping,
- ticklish,
- tingling,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- tolerate,
- tormented,
- tormenter,
- tortuous,
- torture,
- tortured,
- torturesome,
- torturous,
- touching,
- tough luck,
- tragic,
- traumatic,
- tremendous,
- troubling,
- troublous,
- ugly,
- unacceptable,
- unappetizing,
- uncovered,
- undergo,
- undesirable,
- undesired,
- undignified,
- unendurable,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- uninviting,
- unnameable,
- unnerving,
- unpalatable,
- unpleasing,
- unpopular,
- unprotected,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsavory,
- unsavoury,
- unspeakable,
- untellable,
- unthankful,
- untoward,
- unutterable,
- unwelcome,
- uphill,
- upsetting,
- vehemently,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- vile,
- villainous,
- violent,
- violently,
- virulent,
- vulnerable,
- warm,
- wearisome,
- wicked,
- withdraw,
- woebegone,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- wounding,
- wretched,
- zealously,
- Afflicting,
- Deteriorated,
- Discomfiting,
- Discomforting,
- Dolorific,
- Draconic,
- Fatiguing,
- Griping,
- Harassing,
- Operose,
- heart-rending,
- traumatizing,
- hard-earned,
- Spasmatic,
- heart-breaking,
- Ill-conditioned,
- killing,
- below par,
- in pain,
- extremely bad,
- no picnic,
- tough going,
- back-breaking,
- saddle-sore.
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Antonyms for Painful:
adj.
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all
painless.
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arduous
motivating.
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awkward
clever.
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cruel
charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel.
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difficult
free, manageable, plain, uncomplicated.
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distasteful
delectable, delicious, palatable.
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physically or mentally agonizing
agreeable, calm, delightful, easy, facile, friendly, good, great, helpful, mild, nice, painless, pleasant, pleasing, simple, wonderful.
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Other antonyms:
acceptable, allowable, bearable, comfortable, comfy, curative, endurable, good, gratifying, healing, helping, indolent, livable, pain-free, painless, pleasant, pleasing, reasonable, remedial, sufferable, supportable, sustainable, sweet, tolerable, unpainful, survivable.
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all
Other antonyms:
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n. t.
acceptable, agreeable, allowable, calm, curative, easy, effortless, endurable, enjoyable, facile, friendly, good, gratifying, great, harmless, healing, helpful, helping, interesting, pain-free, painless, pleasant, pleasing, reasonable, remedial, satisfying, short, simple, soothing, straightforward, sufferable, supportable, sustainable, sweet, undemanding, unpainful, Relieving, comforting, survivable, a piece of cake.
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n. t.
