painful

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.

A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system.

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

Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.

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.

To all these painful labourers Johnson shewed a never-ceasing kindness, so far as they stood in need of it.

Very bad, poor.

His violin playing is painful.