Painful \Pain"ful\, a.
   1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either
      physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
      --Addison.
      
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   2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with
      laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
      
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   3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller.
      
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            A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.
      
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            Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden.
      
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   Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing;
        grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous.
        
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 -- {Painful*ly}, adv. --
        {Painful*ness}, n.
        
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