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Painless

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Free from pain; without pain or trouble.

    "There are now washless dishes, painless razors, painless shoes, painless corsets, prepared soups, painless photographs (it used to give you a stiff neck for three days to have your picture taken)[…]"

  2. 2
    Not difficult; easy.

    "At first it seemed like a very painless way to get my work done and I told Milly to let me sleepwrite as much as I liked. We discovered, however, that although my subconscious might lead me to the typewriter, it couldn't make me think."

Adjective
  1. 1
    requiring little hard work or exertion wordnet
  2. 2
    not causing physical or psychological pain wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English paynles, peynlees, equivalent to pain + -less. Compare West Frisian pynleas (“painless”), Dutch pijnloos (“painless”).

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