Synonyms: painful, irritating
Definition: causing physical discomfort
Usage: bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful
Similar words: uncomfortable
Definition: providing or experiencing physical discomfort
Usage: an uncomfortable chair; an uncomfortable day in the hot sun
Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, unspeakable, painful, terrible, dreadful
Definition: exceptionally bad or displeasing
Usage: atrocious taste; abominable workmanship; an awful voice; dreadful manners; a painful performance; terrible handwriting; an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room
Similar words: bad
Definition: having undesirable or negative qualities
Usage: a bad report card; his sloppy appearance made a bad impression; a bad little boy; clothes in bad shape; a bad cut; bad luck; the news was very bad; the reviews were bad; the pay is bad; it was a bad light for reading; the movie was a bad choice
Synonyms: painful
Definition: causing physical or psychological pain
Usage: worked with painful slowness
Definition: causing a dull and steady pain
Usage: my aching head; her old achy joints
Similar words: agonised, agonized
Definition: expressing pain or agony
Usage: agonized screams
Similar words: agonising, agonizing, torturesome, torturing, torturous, harrowing, excruciating
Definition: extremely painful
Definition: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
Usage: bitter cold; a biting wind
Definition: painful from having the skin abraded
Similar words: poignant
Definition: keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
Usage: poignant anxiety
Similar words: itchy
Definition: causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
Usage: he had an itchy toe from the mosquito bite
Similar words: racking, wrenching
Definition: causing great physical or mental suffering
Usage: a wrenching pain
Similar words: saddle-sore
Definition: (of a rider) sore after riding a horse
Similar words: sensitive, sore, tender, raw
Definition: hurting
Usage: the tender spot on his jaw
Similar words: traumatic
Definition: psychologically painful
Usage: few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child;
Synonyms: sore, painful, afflictive
Definition: causing misery or pain or distress
Usage: it was a sore trial to him; the painful process of growing up
Similar words: unpleasant
Definition: disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings
Usage: an unpleasant personality; unpleasant repercussions; unpleasant odors