painful

English

/ˈpeɪn.fəl/

adj
Definitions
  • Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
  • Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
  • Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
  • (now) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
  • (informal) Very bad, poor.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English paynful affix from English pain root from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (pay, pile up, honor, value, build, stow, avenge, observe, gather, pile).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*kʷey-

Gloss

pay, pile up, honor, value, build, stow, avenge, observe, gather, pile

Concept
Semantic Field

Possession

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

払

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