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painlike

painlike adjective: resembling pain.

Adjective

painlike (comparative more painlike, superlative most painlike)

  1. Resembling pain.
    • As the duration lengthens beyond 80 msec, the painlike quality of the sensation decreases.1981, Raimond Emmers, Pain — a spike-interval coded message in the brain
    • But if the sexual urge is continually frustrated, the whole business becomes more truly painlike, and few would choose that condition over indifference.1993, Neal O Weiner, The harmony of the soul: mental health and moral virtue reconsidered

Forms of painlike

comparativemore painlike
superlativemost painlike

Origin of painlike

From pain + -like.

Questions about painlike

What does painlike mean?
Painlike means resembling pain.
What part of speech is painlike?
Painlike is an adjective.

Words near painlike in the dictionary

  1. painkillers
  2. painkilling
  3. painless
  4. painlessly
  5. painlessness
  6. painlike
  7. painmaker
  8. painmakers
  9. painmaking
  10. Paino
  11. paino nobiles

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