The state or quality of being painful, of causing pain. / The state or quality of being tedious, of requiring great care.

Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. / Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). / Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.

present participle of pain

An English surname, of Norman derivation, meaning someone who lived outside of a city (See Latin pagus).

A surname.

Obsolete spelling of pain

simple past tense and past participle of pain

In pain, especially in an emotional sense.

Used to warn of consequences if a specified act is done or not done: subject to the punishment of (some penalty); or (generally) subject to the circumstance of (some thing).

plural of painfulness