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painless Definition

pain·less (-lis)

adjective

  1. free from or without pain
  2. not causing or involving pain

painless Related Forms
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.