painfulness
81painful — /ˈpeɪnfəl/ (say paynfuhl) adjective 1. affected with or causing pain: painful sunburn. 2. laborious; difficult. 3. Obsolete painstaking. –painfully, adverb –painfulness, noun …
82awkwardness — [n1] clumsiness; inelegance amateurishness, artlessness, boorishness, cloddishness, coarseness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, greenness*, ignorance, inability, incompetence, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpertness, maladroitness, oafishness,… …
83bitterness — [n1] sourness acerbity, acidity, acridity, astringency, brackishness, brininess, piquancy, pungency, sharpness, tartness, vinegariness; concept 614 Ant. sweetness bitterness [n2] agony acrimoniousness, anguish, asperity, distress, grievousness,… …
84difficulty — [n1] problem; situation requiring great effort adversity, arduousness, awkwardness, barricade, check, complication, crisis, crux, dead end, deadlock, deep water*, dilemma, distress, emergency, exigency, fix*, frustration, hardship, hazard,… …
85painful — ► ADJECTIVE 1) affected with or causing pain. 2) informal very bad: their attempts at reggae are painful. DERIVATIVES painfully adverb painfulness noun …
86painfully — painful ► ADJECTIVE 1) affected with or causing pain. 2) informal very bad: their attempts at reggae are painful. DERIVATIVES painfully adverb painfulness noun …
87painful — [pān′fəl] adj. 1. causing pain; hurting; distressing 2. full of or suffering with pain; aching [a painful finger] 3. requiring trouble and care; exacting and difficult 4. annoying or tedious [a long, painful lecture] 5. Archaic painstaking… …
88afflictive — adjective causing misery or pain or distress it was a sore trial to him the painful process of growing up • Syn: ↑painful, ↑sore • Similar to: ↑unpleasant • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
89growing pains — noun 1. pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth • Hypernyms: ↑pain, ↑hurting 2. emotional distress arising during adolescence • Hypernyms: ↑pain, ↑painfulness 3. problems that arise in… …
90irritating — adjective 1. causing irritation or annoyance (Freq. 1) tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport found it galling to have to ask permission an irritating delay nettlesome… …
