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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | aching, hurtful, hurting, nagging, raw, smarting, sore, stinging, tender, throbbing |
| Main Entry: | afflictive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | aching, achy, agonizing, distressing, excruciating, hurtful, sore, stinging, troublesome |
| Main Entry: | nagging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | aching, achy, afflictive, agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, extremely bad, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, saddening, sensitive, severe, sharp, smarting, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious |
| Main Entry: | smarting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | aching, achy, afflictive, agonizing, arduous, awful*, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, extremely bad, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, irritated, laborious, nagging, piercing, raw, saddening, sensitive, severe, sharp, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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