- Types Of Speech
- You can use painful as a article or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Painful
- A 2 syllables article and 7 letters with the letters a, f, i, l, n, p, and u, 4 consonants, 3 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter n. Painful starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, pa, pai, pain, painf, and the ending characters are l, ul, ful, nful, inful, ..
- Definition
- Causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
- Compound Words
- A compound word, painful has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are pain, and ful.
- Scrabble
- Is painful a scrabble word? A 12 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Painful in Pig Latin is said as "ainfulpay or ainfulpway".
- Unigram
- p | a | i | n | f | u | l
- Bigram
- pa | ai | in | nf | fu | ul
- Trigram
- pai | ain | inf | nfu | ful
- Quadrigram
- pain | ainf | infu | nful
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- causing physical discomfort;
"bites of black flies are more than irritating;
they can be very painful" - exceptionally bad or displeasing;
"atrocious taste";
"abominable workmanship";
"an awful voice";
"dreadful manners";
"a painful performance";
"terrible handwriting";
"an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" - causing misery or pain or distress;
"it was a sore trial to him";
"the painful process of growing up"
- Article Examples
- causing physical or psychological pain;
"worked with painful slowness"
Synonym | Definition |
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Abrasive | a substance that abrades or wears down |
Ache | a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain |
Aching | a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain |
Achy | causing a dull and steady pain "my aching head" "her old achy joints" |
Acute | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
Acute Accent | |
Affecting | arousing affect "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene" "poignant grief cannot endure forever" "his gratitude was simple and touching" |
Afflictive | causing misery or pain or distress "it was a sore trial to him" "the painful process of growing up" |
Aggravating | making worse |
Agonising | extremely painful |
View all cognitive synonyms for Painful
Anagram | Definition |
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Painful | causing physical discomfort "bites of black flies are more than irritating they can be very painful" |
View English words with the unique letters used in painful. Words With The Letters Afilnpu
Similar Word | Definition |
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Uncomfortable | providing or experiencing physical discomfort; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun" |
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Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
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Painful (7 letters) | 12 | 16 | painful | ||
Unpainful (9 letters) | 14 +2 | 20 +4 | unpainful | ||
Painfully (9 letters) | 17 +5 | 21 +5 | painfully |
Painful Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With L
- Spelled With / Contains Letters