Synonyms of painful

1 Syllable

sore, raw, hard, cruel, sharp, trying, dire

2 Syllables

rankling, crueler, troublous, hurting, cruelest, burning, biting, grievous, harmful, sorest, upstream, tender, sorer, hard-won, tedious, caustic, throbbing, arduous, smarting, dreadful, stinging, galling, awful, piercing, tragic, aching, hurtful

3 Syllables

laborious, extreme, saddening, tormenting, dolorous, terrible, dirgeful, disturbing, distressing, sorrowful, harrowing, perturbing, anguishing, abscessed, difficult, severe, onerous, unsettling, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, inflamed, doleful

4 Syllables

infestive, distasteful, excruciating, disagreeable, difficile, sensitive, troublesome, dolesome, dolorific, irritated, overtaxing, ulcerated, agonizing, afflictive

5 Syllables

intolerable, insufferable, uncomfortable