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painfulness

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Painful  \Pain"ful\,  a. 
  1.  Full  of  pain;  causing  uneasiness  or  distress,  either 
  physical  or  mental;  afflictive;  disquieting;  distressing. 
  --Addison. 
 
  2.  Requiring  labor  or  toil;  difficult;  executed  with 
  laborious  effort;  as  a  painful  service;  a  painful  march. 
 
  3.  Painstaking;  careful;  industrious.  [Obs.]  --Fuller. 
 
  A  very  painful  person,  and  a  great  clerk.  --Jer. 
  Taylor. 
 
  Nor  must  the  painful  husbandman  be  tired.  --Dryden. 
 
  Syn:  Disquieting;  troublesome;  afflictive;  distressing; 
  grievous;  laborious;  toilsome;  difficult;  arduous.  -- 
  {Pain"ful*ly},  adv  --  {Pain"ful*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  painfulness 
  n  :  emotional  distress;  a  fundamental  feeling  that  people  try  to 
  avoid;  "the  pain  of  loneliness"  [syn:  {pain}]  [ant:  {pleasure}]




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