Painful
adjective
Causing physical or mental hurt.
It's painful to walk on broken foot.
Often appears as...
- painful experience
- painful memory
adjective
Difficult to endure or tolerate.
The meeting was painfully long and unproductive.
Often appears as...
- painfully aware
- painfully slow
adverb
In a way that causes distress or discomfort.
He moved painfully off the bed.
Often appears as...
- painfully slow
- painfully shy
adjective
Causing physical or mental hurt.
It's painful to walk on broken foot.
Often appears as...
- painful experience
- painful memory
adjective
Difficult to endure or tolerate.
The meeting was painfully long and unproductive.
Often appears as...
- painfully aware
- painfully slow
adverb
In a way that causes distress or discomfort.
He moved painfully off the bed.
Often appears as...
- painfully slow
- painfully shy
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Associated Emotions
Used to describe situations that might cause feelings like sadness or regret.
Watching the old family videos was a painful reminder of happier times.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Physical
Not just causing physical pain, but also emotional and psychological distress.
Their harsh words were more painful than any physical injury could be.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitivity
Can be used in delicate situations, but choose carefully to respect others' feelings.
I didn't realize my comment about her performance would be so painful for her.
Pro Tip 1/3Associated Emotions
Used to describe situations that might cause feelings like sadness or regret.
Watching the old family videos was a painful reminder of happier times.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Physical
Not just causing physical pain, but also emotional and psychological distress.
Their harsh words were more painful than any physical injury could be.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitivity
Can be used in delicate situations, but choose carefully to respect others' feelings.
I didn't realize my comment about her performance would be so painful for her.
Pro Tip 1/3Associated Emotions
Used to describe situations that might cause feelings like sadness or regret.
Watching the old family videos was a painful reminder of happier times.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Physical
Not just causing physical pain, but also emotional and psychological distress.
Their harsh words were more painful than any physical injury could be.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitivity
Can be used in delicate situations, but choose carefully to respect others' feelings.
I didn't realize my comment about her performance would be so painful for her.
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Is it bad to hold your...
but in very rare cases, such as when as a person can't sense the need to urinate, the pouch can rupture painfully requiring surgery to fix. But under normal circumstances, your decision to urinate stops the brain's signal to the external urethral sphincter, causing it to relax and the bladder to empty. The external urethral sphincter is one of the muscles of the pelvic floor,
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What’s the big deal with...
which helps heal intestinal damage and improve symptoms. Some people don't have celiac disease or a wheat allergy, but still experience symptoms when they eat foods with gluten. These people have non-celiac gluten sensitivity. They experience painful gut symptoms
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Poetry makes people...
painful and other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected it but either way it is important and you feel so much better when it's done this explanation for trees are real hit with middle school boys I can tell you that and yes it is
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
that he was potentially an escaped car meant that he wasn't afraid of people and he came really close to someone who had a gun and they were surprised and they shot him in the face it was the most painful image i've ever seen there must have been
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Would you opt for a life...
whether pleasurable or painful? Do you yourself have more value when you're experiencing real life's pleasures and pains? Nozick's experiment may not provide all the answers, but it forces us to consider whether real life, though imperfect,
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The amazing ways plants...
a rigid web of compounds that's tough to chew and highly impermeable to pathogens. Leaves are protected by a waxy cuticle that deters insects and microbes. Some plants go a step further with painful structures to warn would-be predators.
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Rethinking infidelity...
But if throughout history, infidelity has always been painful, today it is often traumatic, because it threatens our sense of self. So my patient Fernando, he's plagued. He goes "I thought I knew my life.
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Watch One Family's...
that would help us get back into yeah thank you if you live long enough you're gonna walk through something maybe not to this degree but you're gonna walk through something and and it's gonna be painful
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Filming A Battle Of Life...
first time we did it my knee blistered and skinned and was just really very painful our delightful camera assistant rowan fashioned me some very good knee pads which have been a godsend
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Killer Ant Swarm...
the truth is somewhat different although the bites are painful against people they are purely defensive the jaws may slice through human flesh like butter but it's simply a warning
Video examples
Is it bad to hold your...
but in very rare cases, such as when as a person can't sense the need to urinate, the pouch can rupture painfully requiring surgery to fix. But under normal circumstances, your decision to urinate stops the brain's signal to the external urethral sphincter, causing it to relax and the bladder to empty. The external urethral sphincter is one of the muscles of the pelvic floor,
Video examples
What’s the big deal with...
which helps heal intestinal damage and improve symptoms. Some people don't have celiac disease or a wheat allergy, but still experience symptoms when they eat foods with gluten. These people have non-celiac gluten sensitivity. They experience painful gut symptoms
Video examples
Poetry makes people...
painful and other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected it but either way it is important and you feel so much better when it's done this explanation for trees are real hit with middle school boys I can tell you that and yes it is
Video examples
Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
that he was potentially an escaped car meant that he wasn't afraid of people and he came really close to someone who had a gun and they were surprised and they shot him in the face it was the most painful image i've ever seen there must have been
Video examples
Would you opt for a life...
whether pleasurable or painful? Do you yourself have more value when you're experiencing real life's pleasures and pains? Nozick's experiment may not provide all the answers, but it forces us to consider whether real life, though imperfect,
Video examples
The amazing ways plants...
a rigid web of compounds that's tough to chew and highly impermeable to pathogens. Leaves are protected by a waxy cuticle that deters insects and microbes. Some plants go a step further with painful structures to warn would-be predators.
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
But if throughout history, infidelity has always been painful, today it is often traumatic, because it threatens our sense of self. So my patient Fernando, he's plagued. He goes "I thought I knew my life.
Video examples
Watch One Family's...
that would help us get back into yeah thank you if you live long enough you're gonna walk through something maybe not to this degree but you're gonna walk through something and and it's gonna be painful
Video examples
Filming A Battle Of Life...
first time we did it my knee blistered and skinned and was just really very painful our delightful camera assistant rowan fashioned me some very good knee pads which have been a godsend
Video examples
Killer Ant Swarm...
the truth is somewhat different although the bites are painful against people they are purely defensive the jaws may slice through human flesh like butter but it's simply a warning
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Quote examples
Selena Gomez
American Actress
You can't shut down. You can't say, 'What can I do to make this go away?' You have to let it be painful and get through it. Every day gets better. Because when you're in love, you kind of give everything and make that person your life. So every day, you get more and more of yourself back, and it feels better.
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Giles Andreae
British Artist
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.
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Mel Gibson
Actor
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Christian Bale
Welsh Actor
I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
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Iliza Shlesinger
American Comedian
A very long time ago, I accepted that travel is just a necessary evil, and unlike many things in my life, I decided going with the flow would make it less painful.
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Ginnifer Goodwin
American Actress
I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.
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Yitzhak Shamir
Israeli Statesman
I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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Al Pacino
American Actor
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
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Arthur Smith
English Comedian
Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
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Selena Gomez
American Actress
You can't shut down. You can't say, 'What can I do to make this go away?' You have to let it be painful and get through it. Every day gets better. Because when you're in love, you kind of give everything and make that person your life. So every day, you get more and more of yourself back, and it feels better.
Quote examples
Giles Andreae
British Artist
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.
Quote examples
Mel Gibson
Actor
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.
Quote examples
Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Quote examples
Christian Bale
Welsh Actor
I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
Quote examples
Iliza Shlesinger
American Comedian
A very long time ago, I accepted that travel is just a necessary evil, and unlike many things in my life, I decided going with the flow would make it less painful.
Quote examples
Ginnifer Goodwin
American Actress
I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.
Quote examples
Yitzhak Shamir
Israeli Statesman
I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Quote examples
Al Pacino
American Actor
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
Quote examples
Arthur Smith
English Comedian
Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
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