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painless

[ peyn-lis ]

adjective

  1. without pain; causing little or no pain:

    painless dentistry; a painless cure.

  2. Informal. not difficult; requiring little or no hard work or exertion.


ˈpainless

adjective

  1. not causing pain or distress
  2. not affected by pain


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Derived Forms

  • ˈpainlessly, adverb
  • ˈpainlessness, noun

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Other Words From

  • painless·ly adverb
  • painless·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of painless1

First recorded in 1560–70; pain + -less

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Example Sentences

The familiar and mournful theme song, “Suicide Is Painless,” filled the room.

A soon-to-be released app uses text streaming to make reading quick and painless.

Much debate centered on the necessary current and the current type (AC versus DC) to assure a rapid and painless death.

According to him, the process to obtain official marriage registration was fairly painless.

As long as you don't mind forgoing some of your pool time for a meeting with the lawyers, it all sounds pretty painless.

Could a course like hers have terminated more appropriately than with so beautiful, painless, and tranquil a passing away?

Three things that constitute a physician: a complete cure; leaving no blemish behind; a painless examination.

He had had a very happy life, with plenty of fun and plenty of kindness, and he had a very rapid and painless death.

The highest idea of the Hindu, as of the Buddhist, is to pass out into a sort of painless existence of nothingness.

Outside of a little cranking these once difficult experiences had now become practically painless.

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