painful

/'peinful/
Adjective
  1. causing physical discomfort; they can be very painful"
    • bites of black flies are more than irritating
  2. 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
  3. causing misery or pain or distress
    • it was a sore trial to him
    • the painful process of growing up
  4. causing physical or psychological pain
    • worked with painful slowness

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The child cried because the painful scrape on his knee needed cleaning.