painful

Adjective

• causing physical discomfort; they can be very painful"
  • bites of black flies are more than irritating
    

• exceptionally bad or displeasing
  • atrocious taste
    
  • abominable workmanship
    
  • an awful voice
    
  • dreadful manners
    
  • a painful performance
    
  • terrible handwriting
    
  • an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room
    

• causing misery or pain or distress
  • it was a sore trial to him
    
  • the painful process of growing up
    

• causing physical or psychological pain
  • worked with painful slowness
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  irritating , atrocious , abominable , awful , dreadful , terrible , unspeakable , afflictive , sore