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Definition of Painful
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

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

Saving was slow and painful.
William Christopher Handy

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

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Ovid

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.
Bryan Ferry

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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