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

painful \pain"ful\, a.
   1. full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either
      physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
      --addison.
      1913 webster

   2. requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with
      laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
      1913 webster

   3. painstaking; careful; industrious. obs. --fuller.
      1913 webster

            a very painful person, and a great clerk. --jer.
                                                  taylor.
      1913 webster

            nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   syn: disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing;
        grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous.
        1913 webster -- pain"fully, adv. --
        pain"fulness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
pain"fully pain"fulness 

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

painfulness \pain"fulness\ n.
   emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to
   avoid.

   syn: pain.
        wordnet 1.5

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

painfulness
     n : emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to
         avoid; "the pain of loneliness" syn: pain ant: pleasure
see also:
pain pleasure 

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