Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

The word "painful" can be used as adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

painless painless

Derived Terms

nonpainful overpainful painful bladder syndrome painful on the eyes painfully painfulness prepainful unpainful

Derived From

ful pain

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

agonized recrudescent splitting

Related Terms

agonizing

Related Terms

careful harmful industrious inhumane labor laborious pain painstaking

Similar Terms

aching aching achy agonised agonised agonising agonized agonizing bad biting biting bitter chafed chafed excruciating excruciating galled harmful harrowing inhumane itchy itchy poignant poignant racking raw saddle sore saddle-sore sensitive sensitive sore tender torturesome torturing torturous traumatic traumatic uncomfortable unpleasant wrenching wrenching

Synonym Network

afflictive doleful hurting irritating laborious unspeakable

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.