adjective
1.
affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
2.
laborious; exacting; difficult: a painful life.
3.
Archaic. painstaking; careful.
Related forms
pain·ful·ly, adverb
pain·ful·ness, noun
o·ver·pain·ful, adjective
o·ver·pain·ful·ly, adverb
o·ver·pain·ful·ness, noun
EXPANDSynonyms
1. distressing, torturing, agonizing, tormenting, excruciating. 2. arduous.
1. distressing, torturing, agonizing, tormenting, excruciating. 2. arduous.
Antonyms
2. easy.
2. easy.
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Painful*ly
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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