English > painful: 4 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Causing physical or psychological pain. |
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| Example | "worked with painful slowness" |
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| Narrower | aching, achy | Causing a dull and steady pain |
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| agonized, agonised | Expressing pain or agony / agony |
| agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome | Extremely painful |
| biting, bitter | Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation |
| chafed, galled | Painful from having the skin abraded |
| itchy | Causing an irritating / irritating cutaneous sensation |
| poignant | keenly distressing to the mind or feelings |
| racking, wrenching | Causing great physical or mental suffering |
| saddle-sore | (of a rider) sore after riding a horse |
| sensitive, sore, raw, tender | hurting |
| traumatic | psychologically painful |
| See also | harmful | Causing or capable of causing harm |
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| inhumane | lacking and reflecting lack of pity / pity or compassion / compassion |
| Opposite | painless | not causing physical or psychological pain |
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| Spanish | doloroso, penoso |
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| Catalan | dolorós, penós |
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| Nouns | painfulness | the quality of being painful |
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| painfulness | emotional distress |
| Adverbs | painfully | in or as if in pain |
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