painful
/ˈpeɪn.fəl/ · adjective
Meaning
- Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
- Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
- Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
- Painstaking; careful; industrious.
- Very bad, poor.
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