Synonym finder
Synonyms for painful
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- poignant
- tender
- harrowing
- atrocious
- dreadful
- bad
- agonizing
- sensitive
- awful
- unpleasant
- sore
- excruciating
- bitter
- abominable
- terrible
- prickling
- burning
- torturous
- uncomfortable
- irritating
- agonized
- smarting
- unspeakable
- tingling
- afflictive
- chafed
- traumatic
- achy
- torturing
- biting
- stinging
- wrenching
- torturesome
- racking
- aching
- galled
- saddle-sore
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