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painfulness
Variant of painful
adjective
- causing pain; hurting; distressing
- full of or suffering with pain; aching: a painful finger
- requiring trouble and care; exacting and difficult
- annoying or tedious: a long, painful lecture
- Archaic painstaking
Related Forms:
- painfully adverb
- painfulness noun
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