painful

1. Causing physical or psychological pain (synset 301715524)
   "worked with painful slowness"
   also:

   • harmful - causing or capable of causing harm
   • inhumane - lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion
   similar to:

   • aching, achy - causing a dull and steady pain
   • agonised, agonized - expressing pain or agony
   • agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous - extremely painful
   • biting, bitter - causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
   • chafed, galled - painful from having the skin abraded
   • poignant - keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
   • itchy - causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
   • racking, wrenching - causing great physical or mental suffering
   • saddle-sore - (of a rider) sore after riding a horse
   • raw, sensitive, sore, tender - hurting
   • traumatic - psychologically painful
2. Causing misery or pain or distress (synset 301809309)
   "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"
   similar to: unpleasant - offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness
   same as: afflictive, sore
3. Exceptionally bad or displeasing (synset 301130122)
   "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
   similar to: bad - having undesirable or negative qualities
   same as: abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable
4. Causing physical discomfort (synset 300480675)
   "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
   similar to: uncomfortable - providing or experiencing physical discomfort
   same as: irritating

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