painful
I
adjective
aching, afflictive, agonizing, anguishing, arduous, beset with difficulties, difficult, difficult to endure, discomforting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, excruciating, grievous, grueling, hard to endure, harmful, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, insufferable, intolerable, irksome, irritating, laborious, smarting, sore, throbbing, tiresome, tormenting, torturous, troublesome, troubling, trying, unbearable, uncomfortable, unendurable, unpleasant, unsufferable, wearisome
II
index
cruel, insufferable, lamentable, loathsome, oppressive, pernicious, repugnant (exciting aversion), severe
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006