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pain-free

pain-free adjective: without pain, free of pain.

Adjective

pain-free (not comparable)

  1. Without pain, free of pain.
    • By now you're probably starting to get my drift that cutting costs in today's rail industry is not going to be either easy or pain-free.2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 24
    Synonyms:
    painless

Synonyms of pain-free

Forms of pain-free

alternative formpainfree

Origin of pain-free

From pain + -free.

Questions about pain-free

What does pain-free mean?
Pain-free means without pain, free of pain.
What part of speech is pain-free?
Pain-free is an adjective.

Words near pain-free in the dictionary

  1. pain relief
  2. pain score
  3. pain scores
  4. pain threshold
  5. pain thresholds
  6. pain-free
  7. pain-making
  8. pain-racked
  9. pain-relieving
  10. painable
  11. painal

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