painful

(a) causing physical or psychological pain
- worked with painful slowness
(s) causing misery or pain or distress
- it was a sore trial to him
- the painful process of growing up
afflictive, sore,
(s) exceptionally bad or displeasing
- atrocious taste
- abominable workmanship
- an awful voice
- dreadful manners
- a painful performance
- terrible handwriting
- an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room
awful, abominable, atrocious, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable,
(s) causing physical discomfort
- bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful
irritating,

afflictive sore awful abominable atrocious dreadful terrible unspeakable irritating

painless

painfully painfulness painful sensation