Definizione monolingua

painful

painful (comparative painfuller or more painful, superlative painfullest or most painful)

1. Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. [from 14th c.]
2. Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). [from 15th c.]
3. Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. [from 15th c.]
4. (now rare) Painstaking; careful; industrious. [from 16th c.]
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 142:

     The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2

     For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle

Definizione dizionario painful

	doloroso
	full of pain
	Che arreca dolore: che causa una difficoltà, una scomoditia o dolore sia fisico che mentale.
	Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental.

dolente

dolorifico

dolorosa

fastidioso

forte

molesto

penoso

sgradito

spiacevole

Altri significati:

Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. [from 15th c.]

(to) suffer

requiring labor or toil

Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. [from 14th c.]

be or feel sorry

(now rare) Painstaking; careful; industrious. [from 16th c.]

Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). [from 15th c.]