very+painful

  • 1Painful — 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… …

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  • 2painful — pain|ful [ˈpeınfəl] adj 1.) making you feel very upset, or very difficult and unpleasant for you ≠ ↑painless painful memories/experience etc ▪ He sobbed as he recalled the painful memory. ▪ Venice was a painful reminder of her marriage. ▪ He and… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 3painful — ► ADJECTIVE 1) affected with or causing pain. 2) informal very bad: their attempts at reggae are painful. DERIVATIVES painfully adverb painfulness noun …

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  • 4painful — adjective 1 making you feel very upset, or very difficult and unpleasant for you: be painful for sb (to do sth): It s still painful for her to talk about the divorce. | painful memories/experience: Hearing about the war again brings back painful… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 5painful — adj. VERBS ▪ be, look, seem ▪ become, get ▪ find sth ▪ She found it unbearably painful to speak …

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  • 6Very Bad Deaths — infobox Book | name = Very Bad Deaths title orig = translator = image caption = author = Spider Robinson cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Science fiction, Speculative fiction novel publisher = Baen Books… …

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  • 7painful — adjective /ˈpeɪn.fəl/ a) Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman like exercise, which is the cause that the women… …

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  • 8very — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj. Very is used with these nouns: ↑antithesis, ↑brink, ↑centre, ↑core, ↑corner, ↑day, ↑edge, ↑end, ↑essence, ↑existence, ↑fundamentals, ↑ …

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  • 9A Painful Case — Infobox short story | name = A Painful Case title orig = translator = author = James Joyce country = flag|Ireland language = English series = genre = short story published in = Dubliners publication type = Collection publisher = media type =… …

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  • 10Painfully — 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… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English