Pain"ful (?), a.
1. Full of
pain; causing uneasiness
or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. Addison.
2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.]
Fuller.
A very painful person, and a
great clerk.
Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.
Dryden. Syn. -- Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous;
laborious; toilsome;
difficult; arduous.
-- Pain"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n.
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