Synonyms of the word

painful

• adj. Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
• adj. Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
• adj. Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
• adj. (now rare) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
• adj. (informal) Very bad, poor.

abominable

• adj. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful;…
• adj. (obsolete) Excessive, large (used as an intensifier).
• adj. Very bad or inferior.
• adj. Disagreeable or unpleasant.

aching

• v. present participle of ache.
• adj. That aches; continuously painful.
• n. The feeling of an ache; a dull pain.

achy

• adj. Suffering from aches, sore.

afflictive

• adj. That causes physical or mental pain.

agonised

• v. simple past tense and past participle of agonise.

agonising

• v. present participle of agonise.
• n. Alternative form of agonizing.

agonized

• v. simple past tense and past participle of agonize.

agonizing

• adj. Causing agony.
• v. present participle of agonize.
• n. The act of one who agonizes.

atrocious

• adj. Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
• adj. Offensive or heinous.
• adj. Very bad; abominable, disgusting.

awful

• adj. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
• adj. (now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
• adj. Struck or filled with awe.
• adj. (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
• adj. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
• adj. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
• adj. Very bad.
• adv. (colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.

bad

• adj. Not good; unfavorable; negative.
• adj. Not suitable or fitting.
• adj. Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
• adj. Unhealthy.
• adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
• adj. Evil; wicked.
• adj. Faulty; not functional.
• adj. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
• adj. (of breath) Malodorous, foul.
• adj. (informal) Bold and daring.
• adj. (hip-hop slang) good, superlative.
• adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
• adv. (now colloquial) Badly.
• n. (slang) Error, mistake.
• n. (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted…
• adj. (slang) Fantastic.
• v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
• v. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

biting

• v. present participle of bite.
• n. The action of the verb to bite.
• n. An occurrence of a bite.
• adj. Causing a stinging sensation.
• adj. Cutting or incisive.
• adj. Tending to bite.

bitter

• adj. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
• adj. Harsh, piercing or stinging.
• adj. Hateful or hostile.
• adj. Cynical and resentful.
• n. (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as…
• n. A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
• n. (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
• v. To make bitter.
• n. (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the…

burning

• v. present participle of burn.
• adj. So hot as to seem to burn (something).
• adj. Feeling very hot.
• adj. Feeling great passion.
• adj. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
• n. The act by which something burns or is burned.
• n. A fire.

chafed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of chafe.

dreadful

• adj. (obsolete) Full of dread, whether.
• adj. Full of something causing dread, whether.
• n. A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
• n. A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
• n. A shocking or sensational crime.

excruciating

• adj. Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing.
• adj. Exceedingly intense; extreme.

galled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of gall.

harmful

• adj. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious.

harrowing

• v. present participle of harrow.
• adj. Causing pain or distress.
• n. The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
• n. Suffering, torment.
• n. Christ's triumphal descent into Hell.

inhumane

• adj. lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.

irritating

• adj. Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
• adj. Stimulating or exciting a response.
• v. present participle of irritate.

itchy

• adj. Having or creating an itch, causing a person or animal to tend to want to scratch.

poignant

• adj. (obsolete, of a weapon etc) Sharp-pointed; keen.
• adj. Incisive; penetrating.
• adj. Neat; eloquent; applicable; relevant.
• adj. Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress; emotionally moving.
• adj. (figuratively, of a taste or smell) Piquant, pungent.
• adj. (figuratively, of a look, or of words) Piercing.
• adj. (dated, mostly British) Inducing sharp physical pain.

prickling

• v. present participle of prickle.
• n. A sensation that prickles.

racking

• n. (roofing) A method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up…
• n. (nautical) spun yarn used in racking ropes.
• n. (brewing) The process of clarifying, and thereby deterring further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider…
• v. present participle of rack.

raw

• adj. Of food: not cooked.
• adj. Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.
• adj. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
• adj. New or inexperienced.
• adj. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
• adj. Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.
• adj. Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.
• adj. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
• adv. (slang) Without a condom.
• n. (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
• n. (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
• n. (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (polished or purged of blemishes arising from the…

sensitive

• adj. Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
• adj. Responsive to stimuli.
• adj. (of a person) Easily offended, upset or hurt.
• adj. (of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
• adj. (of an instrument) Accurate.
• n. One with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

sore

• adj. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
• adj. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
• adj. Dire; distressing.
• adj. (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
• adj. (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
• adv. (archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
• adv. Sorely.
• n. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
• n. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
• n. A group of ducks on land. (See also: sord).
• n. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
• n. A young buck in its fourth year.
• v. (transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

stinging

• adj. Having the capacity to sting.
• v. present participle of sting.
• n. The act by which someone receives a sting.

tender

• adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
• adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
• adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
• adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
• adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
• adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
• adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
• adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
• adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
• adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
• v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
• v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
• n. (obsolete) Regard; care; kind concern.
• n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
• n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
• n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
• n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
• v. (formal) To offer, to give.
• v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
• n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
• n. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
• n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

terrible

• adj. Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
• adj. Formidable, powerful.
• adj. Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
• adj. Unpleasant; disagreeable.
• adj. Very bad; lousy.

tingling

• n. A tingling sensation; pins and needles.
• v. present participle of tingle.

torturesome

• adj. Characterised or marked by torture; torturous.

torturing

• n. An act of torture.
• v. present participle of torture.

torturous

• adj. Of or pertaining to torture.
• adj. Painful, excruciating, torturing.

traumatic

• adj. Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
• adj. (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
• adj. (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
• adj. Produced by wounds.
• n. (dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

uncomfortable

• adj. Not comfortable.
• adj. Experiencing discomfort.
• adj. Uneasy or anxious.
• adj. Put off or disgusted.

unpleasant

• adj. Not pleasant.

unspeakable

• adj. Incapable of being spoken or uttered; unutterable; ineffable; inexpressible.
• adj. Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
• adj. Extremely bad or objectionable.

wrenching

• v. present participle of wrench.
• n. The act by which something is wrenched.