Painfulness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Painful \Pain"ful\, a.
     1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either
        physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
        --Addison.
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     2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with
        laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
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     3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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              A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer.
                                                    Taylor.
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              Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden.
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     Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing;
          grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Pain"ful*ly}, adv. --
          {Pain"ful*ness}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  painfulness \pain"ful*ness\ n.
     Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to
     avoid.
  
     Syn: pain.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  painfulness
       n : emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to
           avoid; "the pain of loneliness" [syn: {pain}] [ant: {pleasure}]