Synonyms for Painful:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • painful.
  •anguishing (adjective)
  • more suffering,
  • most suffering.
  •arduous (adjective)
  • harsh,
  • strenuous,
  • rough,
  • rigorous,
  • labored,
  • formidable,
  • tough,
  • burdensome,
  • tiring,
  • murder,
  • backbreaking,
  • taxing,
  • Fatiguing,
  • grueling,
  • uphill,
  • toilsome,
  • exhausting,
  • heavy,
  • punishing.
  •awkward (adjective)
  • ill at ease,
  • untimely,
  • perplexing,
  • delicate,
  • compromising,
  • inopportune,
  • thorny,
  • ticklish,
  • inconvenient.
  •bad (adjective)
  • intense,
  • grave,
  • serious,
  • disastrous.
  •burning (adjective)
  • pungent,
  • reeking,
  • acrid,
  • tingling,
  • irritating.
  •cruel (adjective)
  • 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.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • 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.
  •distasteful (adjective)
  • loathsome,
  • repugnant,
  • abominable,
  • offensive,
  • abhorrent,
  • yucky,
  • tasteless,
  • insipid,
  • flavorless,
  • unsavory,
  • icky,
  • obnoxious,
  • repellent,
  • flat,
  • objectionable,
  • unappetizing,
  • detestable,
  • displeasing,
  • undesirable,
  • uninviting,
  • odious,
  • nauseous.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • 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.
  •doleful (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dolorous (adjective)
  • ruthful,
  • calamitous,
  • deplorable.
  •galling (adjective)
  • Harassing,
  • Plaguing.
  •hard (adjective)
  • harder,
  • hardboiled,
  • stern,
  • hard as nails,
  • unsparing.
  •harmful (adjective)
  • risky,
  • murderous,
  • malefic,
  • mischievous.
  •harrowing (adjective)
  • more tearing,
  • most tearing,
  • more traumatic,
  • most traumatic,
  • nerve racking,
  • nerveracking,
  • most racking,
  • most torturing,
  • more racking,
  • more torturing,
  • torturing.
  •insufferable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •onerous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •painful (adjective)
  • 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.
  •physically or mentally agonizing (adjective)
  • hurting,
  • extreme,
  • caustic,
  • dire,
  • raw,
  • laborious,
  • sharp,
  • tedious,
  • vexatious,
  • saddening,
  • extremely bad,
  • irritated.
  •piercing (adjective)
  • high pitched,
  • roaring,
  • more numbing,
  • most stentorious,
  • more shattering,
  • more shooting,
  • knifelike,
  • most shattering,
  • most shooting,
  • more stentorious,
  • most numbing,
  • numbing,
  • highpitched.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • easily harmed.
  •sore (adjective)
  • 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.
  •sorrowful (adjective)
  • full sorrow,
  • tearjerking,
  • sick heart,
  • un happiest,
  • un happy,
  • un-happy,
  • singing blues,
  • un happier,
  • tearful,
  • heavy hearted,
  • tear jerking.
  •sticky (adjective)
  • more discomforting,
  • dis-comforting,
  • most discomforting,
  • dis comforting.
  •tragic (adjective)
  • illstarred,
  • ill starred,
  • de-solate,
  • more anguished,
  • most anguished,
  • un fortunate,
  • ill fated,
  • illfated,
  • ill-starred,
  • de solate,
  • un-fortunate.
  •troublesome (adjective)
  • in festive,
  • un-governable,
  • in-tractable,
  • dis-quieting,
  • dis quieting,
  • in-festive,
  • more infestive,
  • most infestive,
  • in tractable.
  •unpalatable (adjective)
  • un palatable,
  • un-palatable.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un settling,
  • un-settling.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • up-setting.
  •violent (adjective)
  • tumultous tumultuous,
  • tumultous-tumultuous,
  • gale force,
  • tumultoustumultuous,
  • in-ordinate.

• n.

  •
  • sad,
  • worrying.
  •
  • guilty,
  • pain.
  •
  • like.
  •aching (noun)
  • aching.
  •achy (noun)
  • achy.
  •afflictive (noun)
  • afflictive.
  •agonised (noun)
  • agonised.
  •agonising (noun)
  • agonising.
  •agonized (noun)
  • agonized.
  •agonizing (noun)
  • agonizing.
  •atrocious (noun)
  • atrocious.
  •biting (noun)
  • biting.
  •bitter (noun)
  • bitter.
  •chafed (noun)
  • chafed.
  •dreadful (noun)
  • dreadful.
  •excruciating (noun)
  • excruciating.
  •galled (noun)
  • galled.
  •painful (noun)
  • racking,
  • Torturing.,
  • torturesome,
  • bad,
  • awful,
  • terrible,
  • torturous,
  • saddle sore,
  • tender.
  •saddle-sore (noun)
  • saddle-sore.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • 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.
  •
  • dreaded,
  • touching,
  • pathetic,
  • dismal,
  • bittersweet,
  • indigestible,
  • pitiful,
  • sentimental,
  • embarrassed.
  •
  • unpalatable,
  • dark,
  • embarrassing.
  •
  • black.
  •congested
  • inflamed.
  •exhausting
  • nerve-racking.
  •insufferable
  • insupportable.
  •sore
  • lame.

Paraphrases for Painful:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    difficult, painless, dreadful, dire, excruciating, terrible, annoying, complicated, lamentable, disgraceful, challenging, severe, cruel, regrettable, awful, nasty, grim, shameful, harmful, misery, shocking, damaging, troubled, horrible, disastrous, problematic, distressed, unattractive, daunting, sensitive, serious, dramatic, dismal, horrendous.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    distressing, embarrassing, agonizing, harrowing, unpleasant, bitter, laborious, painstaking, poignant, hurtful, sorrowful, sad, traumatic, uncomfortable, arduous, sore, grievous, stressful, pitiful, tragic, tough, distasteful, disagreeable, frustrating, harsh, burdensome, unfortunate, appalling, tedious, woeful, onerous, troubling, strenuous, saddening, upsetting, inconvenient, tiresome, cumbersome, miserable, pathetic, acrimonious, awkward, galling, troublesome, pain, ugly, disturbing, heavy-handed, tortuous, devastating, depressing, deplorable, thorny, time-consuming, uphill.
  • Proper noun, singular
    pain.

Antonyms for Painful:

• adj.

  • all
    painless.
  • arduous
    motivating.
  • awkward
    clever.
  • cruel
    compassionate, uncruel, gentle, merciful, sympathetic, kind, considerate, charitable, thoughtful, feeling.
  • difficult
    plain, manageable, uncomplicated, free.
  • distasteful
    palatable, delectable, delicious.
  • doleful
    elated, joyful, happy, cheerful, glad, gleeful.
  • dolorous
    cheery, hopeful.
  • physically or mentally agonizing
    easy, agreeable, helpful, delightful, wonderful, mild, calm, great, pleasant, facile, simple, friendly, nice, good.
  • Other antonyms:
    indolent, remedial, healing, bearable, pleasing, comfortable, comfy, survivable, livable, reasonable, tolerable, allowable, helping, sweet, curative.