Definition of Painful

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Painful

Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

Painstaking; careful; industrious.

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Painful Quotations

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

Painful Translations

painful in Afrikaans is seer
painful in Danish is smertelig
painful in Dutch is zeer, pijnlijk, deerlijk, smartelijk
painful in French is endolori
painful in German is peinlich, schmerzhaft
painful in Italian is doloroso
painful in Portuguese is doloroso
painful in Spanish is penoso, doloroso

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