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painful

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of painful

1 causing or feeling bodily pain

  • a very painful toothache
  • her broken arm was too painful for her to go on the trip
Synonyms of painful

aching, achy, afflictive, hurting, nasty, sore
Words Related to painful

agonizing, excruciating, torturous

damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, noxious, pernicious

raw, tender

bleeding, burning, chafing, cramping, festering

itching, nagging, pinching, pricking, prickling, smarting, stinging

inflamed (also enflamed), swollen

grievous, severe, threatening, wounding
Near Antonyms of painful

curative, healing, helping, remedial
Antonyms of painful

indolent, painless

2 hard to accept or bear especially emotionally

  • itʼs been very painful to accept that my father is gone forever
Synonyms of painful

afflicting, agonizing, bitter, cruel, excruciating, galling, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, tormenting, torturous
Words Related to painful

insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable

appalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretched

acute, extreme, intense, piercing
Near Antonyms of painful

bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerable

livable (also liveable), sufferable, survivable

acceptable, allowable, reasonable
Antonyms of painful

gratifying, pleasing, sweet

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