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painful - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: painful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: physically or mentally agonizing
Synonyms: agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, sensitive, severe, sharp, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious, aching, afflictive, extremely bad, hurting, saddening, smarting, throbbing, tormenting
Antonyms: delightful, easy, pleasant, painless
Main Entry: arduous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult, hard to endure
Synonyms: backbreaking, burdensome, formidable, grueling, harsh, heavy, labored, laborious, murder, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, exhausting, fatiguing, no picnic
Antonyms: easy, facile, motivating
Main Entry: distasteful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: repulsive, unpleasant
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, bitter, detestable, disagreeable, flat, flavorless, galling, grievous, gross*, hateful, icky*, insipid, loathsome, nauseous, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, painful, repellent, repugnant, tasteless, unappetizing, undesirable, uninviting, unpalatable, unsavory, yucky*, afflictive, dislikable, displeasing, grody, savorless, unlikable, yicky
Antonyms: agreeable, delectable, delicious, palatable, pleasant, pleasing
Main Entry: doleful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressing
Synonyms: afflicted, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, dismal, dispirited, distressing, dolorous, down, down in the mouth*, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, painful, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, rueful, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched, cast down, dirgeful, dolent, grieving
Antonyms: cheerful, elated, glad, gleeful, happy, joyful
Main Entry: dolorous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: miserable, anguished
Synonyms: afflicted, calamitous, deplorable, dire, distressing, doleful, grievous, harrowing, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, painful, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched, afflictive, dolent, dolesome, dolorific, heart-rending, ruthful
Antonyms: cheery, happy, hopeful
Main Entry: galling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very upsetting
Synonyms: acid, annoying, bitter, bothersome, distasteful, grievous, humiliating, irksome, irritating, nettlesome, painful, provoking, rankling, unpalatable, vexatious, afflictive, aggravating, exasperating, harassing, plaguing, vexing
Antonyms: cheering, comforting, pleasing, satisfying, soothing, wonderful
Main Entry: harrowing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dangerous, frightening
Synonyms: agonizing, alarming, chilling, distressing, disturbing, excruciating, heartbreaking, nerve-racking, painful, soaring, terrifying, heart-rending, racking, tearing, tormenting, torturing, torturous, traumatic
Antonyms: calming, pleasant, pleasing, unfrightening
Main Entry: insufferable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrible, intolerable
Synonyms: detestable, distressing, dreadful, impossible, outrageous, painful, unacceptable, unbearable, unspeakable, insupportable, unendurable
Antonyms: delightful, endurable, happy, pleasant, tolerable, sufferable
Main Entry: intolerable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unacceptable; beyond bearing
Synonyms: excruciating, extreme, impossible, insufferable, last straw*, offensive, painful, unbearable, undesirable, a bit much, enough already, insupportable, unendurable
Antonyms: acceptable, bearable, tolerable
Main Entry: onerous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult; requiring hard labor
Synonyms: arduous, austere, backbreaking, burdensome, cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, exacting, excessive, exigent, formidable, galling, grave, grinding, grueling, hard*, harsh, headache, heavy*, intolerable, irksome, laborious, merciless, oppressive, overpowering, painful, ponderous, pressing, responsible, rigorous, serious, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, vexatious, weighty, crushing, embittering, exhausting, fatiguing, overtaxing, plodding
Antonyms: common, easy, light, trivial
Main Entry: piercing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intense to the senses
Synonyms: acute, agonizing, arctic, biting, bitter, cold, deafening, earsplitting, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, freezing, frosty, high, high-pitched, keen, loud, painful, penetrating, powerful, raw, severe, sharp, shooting, shrill, stentorian, thin, wintry, blaring, knifelike, numbing, racking, roaring, shattering, stabbing, stentorious, treble
Antonyms: low, soft, weak
Main Entry: sorrowful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very upset; grieving
Synonyms: affecting, afflicted, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, distressing, doleful, grievous, heartbroken, heartrending, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, painful, piteous, plaintive, rueful, sad, sorry, tearful, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched, dolent, full of sorrow, heavy-hearted, hurting, in mourning, in pain, in sorrow, ruthful, sick at heart, singing the blues, tear-jerking
Antonyms: delighted, happy, joyful
Main Entry: tragic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: catastrophic, very bad
Synonyms: adverse, appalling, awful, calamitous, deadly, deathly, deplorable, desolate, destructive, dire, disastrous, doleful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, forlorn, grievous, grim, hapless, harrowing, heartbreaking, ill-fated, lamentable, miserable, mournful, painful, pathetic, pitiful, ruinous, sad, shocking, sorrowful, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched, anguished, cataclysmic, crushing, heart-rending, ill-starred, pitiable
Antonyms: advantageous, blessed, good, happy, successful
Main Entry: disturbing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disquieting
Synonyms: alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discouraging, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, hard, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, wearisome, worrisome, worrying, aggravating, agitating, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, harassing, impeding, perturbing, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, vexing
Main Entry: rankling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: festering
Synonyms: annoying, disturbing, galling, irritating, painful, upsetting
Main Entry: difficult
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hard on someone; hard to do
Synonyms: Gargantuan*, Herculean*, ambitious, arduous, bothersome, burdensome, crucial, demanding, exacting, formidable, galling, heavy, immense, intricate, irritating, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, painful, problem, problematic, prohibitive, rigid, severe, stiff, strenuous, titanic, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, unyielding, uphill, wearisome, backbreaker, challenging, difficile, easier said than done, effortful, hard-won, no picnic, not easy, upstream
Antonyms: calm, easy, free, manageable, plain, simple, uncomplicated
Main Entry: sore
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hurt physically
Synonyms: acute, afflicted, annoying, burned, burning, critical, distressing, extreme, hurtful, inflamed, irritated, pained, painful, raw, sensitive, severe, sharp, tender, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious, abscessed, aching, bruised, chafed, hurting, reddened, smarting, ulcerated
Antonyms: good, well
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