Crossword-Solution: PAINFUL 7 letters, 51 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Painful a. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either
physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
Painful a. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with
laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
Painful a. Painstaking; careful; industrious.

We have 51 clues for the answer “PAINFUL”

Clue Answers
causing pain or distress 1 answer
Sore, perhaps 1 answer
Like some realizations 1 answer
causing discomfort 3 answers
Hard to bear 4 answers
algetic 7 answers
knifelike 9 answers
paining 9 answers
SORE to the touch 10 answers
Stabbing 10 answers
CAUSING PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN 11 answers
Causing hurt 12 answers
insufferable 14 answers
agonizing 14 answers
Achy 14 answers
Stinging 18 answers
Shooting ___ 28 answers
afflictive 31 answers
Bedridden 32 answers
bruising 39 answers
torturing 40 answers
racking 40 answers
excruciating 40 answers
Struggling 40 answers
disquieting 42 answers
desecrated 43 answers
agonising 43 answers
profaned 43 answers
flyblown 43 answers
putrescent 44 answers
Tearing 45 answers
Infected 45 answers
polluted 47 answers
saddening 48 answers
worrying 48 answers
gruelling 49 answers
contaminated 50 answers
rotting 51 answers
ADULTERATED 51 answers
unsanitary 51 answers
Aching 52 answers
disheartening 52 answers
Sore 54 answers
Throbbing 57 answers
unhealthy 58 answers
Afflicted 61 answers
Annoying 65 answers
Tenderness 72 answers
Raw 72 answers
distressing 77 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PAINFUL (5)

Sometimes, though not often, he had dreams, and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
His presence was painful; his eye flashed confusion; and seldom was his sharp, shrill voice heard, without producing horror and trembling in their ranks.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
She looked fixedly up the bleak street as if she were gathering her strength to face something, as if she were trying with all her might to grasp a situation which, no matter how painful, must be met and dealt with somehow.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Boldwood, it is painful to have to say I am surprised, so that I don’t know how to answer you with propriety and respect—but am only just able to speak out my feeling—I mean my meaning; that I am afraid I can’t marry you, much as I respect you.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Though my arms and back were presently acutely painful, I went on clambering down the sheer descent with as quick a motion as possible.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with PAINFUL (3)

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to …
Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway Men Without Women
If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.
Gayle Forman If I Stay
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Appears in: Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (2005–2020).