painless
painless
Definition
pain·less (-lis)
adjective
- free from or without pain
- not causing or involving pain
pain′·lessly adverb
pain′·less·ness noun
painless
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: The overnight flights made the travel fairly painless ( we are both fairly short legged ).
- find: Many people have to inject themselves for all sorts of conditions and in practice find the injections relatively painless.
Preposition: because
- nerve: The polypectomy is painless because the colon nerves are only sensitive to stretching.
Modifying Another Word
- relatively: Question: You say there could be a relatively painless war in Iraq?
- fairly: Central line tube services into London provide a fairly painless journey to work.
- surprisingly: We were also invited to migrate our current Xbox Live account, which was a surprisingly painless process having already tied it to MSN.
- virtually: A virtually painless treatment, it involves injecting hand veins in a similar way to varicose veins in the legs.
- completely: It is completely painless Exercise test * Also called an Exercise ECG.
- totally: I found this part of the process totally painless.
Modifies a noun
- childbirth: Natural childbirth is not the same as painless childbirth.
- lump: In April 1999, I discovered a small, painless lump on my neck.
- injection: The treatment involves a series of small, quick and painless injections into each area.
- ulcer: Symptoms can include a painless ulcer in the genital area or mouth.
- transition: GAC has taken on both technical and support staff from Hyphen, ensuring a painless transition for the user base.
- procedure: It is a very straight forward, painless procedure with no side effects.
Infinitive complement
- apply: A. If you want to protect your horse against theft using a visible but painless to apply mark, then this is the answer.
- achieve: With over 13 years experience shooting reportage styled weddings our stills are happy photos that are quick & painless to achieve.
- install: Overall, I am impressed with the fact that is was pretty painless to install the new kernel.
Used with adjective complement
- make: Furthermore, the feedback process should be made as painless as possible.
Browse dictionary entries near painless
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