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painful 音標拼音: [p'enfəl] a. 痛苦的,困難的,令人煩惱的 痛苦的,困難的,令人煩惱的 painful adj 1: causing physical or psychological pain; " worked with painful slowness" [ ant: { painless}] 2: causing misery or pain or distress; " it was a sore trial to him"; " the painful process of growing up" [ synonym: { afflictive}, { painful}, { sore}] 3: exceptionally bad or displeasing; " atrocious taste"; " abominable workmanship"; " an awful voice"; " dreadful manners"; " a painful performance"; " terrible handwriting"; " an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [ synonym: { atrocious}, { abominable}, { awful}, { dreadful}, { painful}, { terrible}, { unspeakable}] 4: causing physical discomfort; " bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful" [ synonym: { irritating}, { painful}] 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" ful* ly}, adv. -- { Pain" ful* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 140 Moby Thesaurus words for " painful": Herculean, aching, achy, acute, affecting, afflictive, aggravating, agonizing, algetic, annoying, arduous, assiduous, atrocious, backbreaking, besetting, biting, bitter, bleak, bothersome, burdensome, burning, careful, cheerless, comfortless, conscientious, cramping, cruel, crushing, demanding, deplorable, depressing, depressive, detailed, diligent, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, disquieting, distasteful, distressful, distressing, disturbing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, earnest, effortful, exacting, exasperating, excruciating, forced, galling, gnawing, grave, grievous, griping, grueling, harassing, hard, hard- earned, hard- fought, harrowing, harsh, heavy, hefty, hurtful, hurting, irksome, irritating, joyless, killing, labored, laborious, lamentable, meticulous, mournful, moving, onerous, operose, oppressive, painstaking, paroxysmal, pathetic, piercing, piteous, pitiable, plaguey, poignant, pungent, punishing, racking, raw, regrettable, rigorous, rueful, sad, saddening, scrupulous, sedulous, sensitive, severe, sharp, shooting, smarting, sore, sorrowful, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, strained, strenuous, tender, thorough, thoroughgoing, throbbing, toilsome, tormenting, torturous, touching, tough, troublesome, troubling, trying, unappetizing, uncomfortable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, uphill, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, woebegone, woeful, worrisome, worrying, wretched |
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