| 单词 | painful |
| 释义 | painful (once / 139 pages) adj Anything painful hurts a lot — either physically or emotionally. Your sprained ankle may be painful, but so is your broken heart. When something is physically painful, it hurts your body in some way, like a painful burn or a painful paper cut. Other things hurt just as much, but in an emotional way, like a painful separation from your cat when you go to summer camp. You can also use this adjective informally to mean really bad: "The wedding band's attempt at 'Stairway to Heaven' was just painful." WORD FAMILYpainful: painfuler, painfulest, painfully, painfulness, unpainful+/pain: pained, painful, paining, painless, pains/pained: painedly/painless: painlessly USAGE EXAMPLESThe former is prescribed for the painful muscle spasms that occur in multiple sclerosis, while the latter is aimed at childhood seizures. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) But the medical profession increasingly understands that painful as it is, the revolution is necessary and unstoppable. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt is a relentlessly dark film on the painful theme of family dysfunction. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj causing physical or psychological pain worked with painful slowness Syn|Ant harmful causing or capable of causing harm inhumanelacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion aching, achycausing a dull and steady pain agonised, agonizedexpressing pain or agony agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturousextremely painful biting, bittercausing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold chafed, galledpainful from having the skin abraded poignantkeenly distressing to the mind or feelings itchycausing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch racking, wrenchingcausing great physical or mental suffering saddle-sore(of a rider) sore after riding a horse raw, sensitive, sore, tenderhurting traumaticpsychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; painless not causing physical or psychological pain harmlessnot causing or capable of causing harm pain-free, unpainfulnot accompanied by pain sensations 2adj causing physical discomfort they can be very painful Syn irritating uncomfortable providing or experiencing physical discomfort 3adj causing misery or pain or distress the painful process of growing up Syn afflictive, sore unpleasant disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings 4adj exceptionally bad or displeasing a painful performance Syn abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable bad having undesirable or negative qualities |
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