Pain"ful (?), a. 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, n.