Definitions for painful

painful pain·ful

Spelling: [peyn-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈpeɪn fəl/

Painful is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in painful (afilnpu).

Definitions for painful

adjective

  1. affected with, causing, or characterized by pain:
  2. laborious; exacting; difficult:
  3. Archaic. painstaking; careful.

Origin of painful

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at pain, -ful

Examples for painful

The circumstances were painful, but added a dramatic touch to the scene.

I turned left, and began the long, painful walk to the emergency room at the University of Virginia medical center.

Silence was painful to me, and reply only accumulated difficulty and vexation.

The audience--tout Hollywood--stands to cheer his slow and painful trek from the wings to the table.

What follows is hysterical, painful, weird, and strangely touching—a true Festivus for the rest of us.

Now he scanned the trees on the edge of the clearing with painful anxiety.

And in the painful cleaning of the wound he did not murmur once.

To his critics, he explained—sometimes at painful length—his reasoning against it.

He had been shot in the most painful place in the body—the palm of the hand.

He can't wrap his head around the idea that people may want to talk about painful events.

Word Value for painful
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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