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1
causing or feeling bodily pain
- a very painful toothache
- her broken arm was too painful for her to go on the trip
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2
hard to accept or bear especially emotionally
- it's been very painful to accept that my father is gone forever
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“Painful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/painful. Accessed 22 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of painful was in the 14th century
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