Another word for painful
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Adjective
Marked by, causing, or experiencing physical pain
- That causes physical or mental pain
- Causing pain or misery
- Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
- Causing pain or suffering, especially of a psychological nature.
- Causing hurt; specif., wounding the feelings
- Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.
- Painful, sore.
- (Figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
- Causing sadness, grief, misery, or distress
- Causing embarrassment or irritation:
- Feeling physical pain; hurting:
See also:Difficult to accept
- Resulting from or expressive of severe grief, anguish, or disappointment:
- Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear:
- Proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity:
- (Figuratively) Unpleasant.
- Unpleasant to taste
- Unpleasant; disagreeable:
- Not easily digested
- That cannot be digested
- Difficult or impossible to digest:
- (By extension) unpleasant or disagreeable
- Unpleasant to the taste
- Not pleasant or agreeable:
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Another word for painful
Modifier
Referring to physical anguish
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