painfuller

Adjective

painful (comparative painfuller or more painful, superlative painfullest or most painful)

1. Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
   • In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow.2009 September 1, Elizabeth Svoboda, “In Tonsils, a Problem the Size of a Pea”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms:

   excruciating, torturous, agonizing, ailsome, groanful, hellish, hurtful, bruising, painable, terrible

   Antonyms:

   painless, painfree

2. Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).

   Synonyms:

   doleful, sorrowful, smartful, irksome, annoying

   Antonyms:

   painless, painfree

3. Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.

   Synonyms:

   laborious, exerting

4. (archaic) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
   • The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 142
5. (informal) Very bad, poor.
   • His violin playing is painful.