painful
adjective
affected with, causing, or characterized by pain.
painfulness
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a word derived from
painful.
Example Sentences
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First cut in the early ’60s, this bouncy meditation on the painfulness of memory could still pull heartstrings two decades later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
“There’s so much tied into the internment camp experience and the painfulness of some people not having anything to come back to,” Hori said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
If it felt intimate and specific to the point of painfulness, that’s because it was coming from something real; creator Jill Soloway was inspired by her own father’s transition.
From The Verge ● Dec. 9, 2015
However, the gracefulness of such acceptance, she added, made her realize that the painfulness of life’s journey is itself often fleeting.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 1, 2015
No material is so adapted for giving full play to the imagination, but it must not be wrought with refinement or painfulness, still less with costliness.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin
