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Word: painful (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • archaic Painstaking; careful; industrious
  • Full of pain; causing hurt, uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
  • Requiring effort, labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

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