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Webster 1913 Edition

Painful

Pain′ful

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Painful

PA'INFUL

,
Adj.
Giving pain, uneasiness or distress to the body; as a painful operation in surgery.
1.
Giving pain to the mind; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
Evils have been more painful to us in the prospect, than in the actual pressure.
2.
Full of pain; producing misery or affliction.
3.
Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service. The army had a painful march.
4.
Laborious; exercising labor; undergoing toil; industrious.
Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.

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