Painsome

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Indicating or marked by pain; painful

    "'If thou dost avow that thou art Augur to the Suitors, then often in prayer must thou have sugared my destruction, and desired my wife for thine own; wherefore thou shalt not escape the painsome bed of death.'"

Example

More examples

"'If thou dost avow that thou art Augur to the Suitors, then often in prayer must thou have sugared my destruction, and desired my wife for thine own; wherefore thou shalt not escape the painsome bed of death.'"

Etymology

From pain + -some. Compare hurtsome.

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