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pain•ful



Pronunciation: (pān'ful), [key]
—adj.
1. affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
2. laborious; exacting; difficult: a painful life.
3. Archaic. painstaking; careful.

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