English-Portuguese translations for painful

• doído
• dolorido
• doloroso
  Srebrenica não tem apenas um passado doloroso, mas também um presente doloroso.Srebrenica not only has a painful past, it also has a painful present.
  E, quanto mais tarde as reestruturarmos, mais doloroso será o exercício. And the later we restructure, the more painful the exercise.
  Este é, pois, o doloroso legado que herdámos. So this is the painful legacy we have inherited.
• árduo
  Este será um processo particularmente árduo, relativamente a cuja utilidade poderemos interrogar-nos neste momento. This will be an extremely painful process, and one can ask oneself whether it would all that useful right now.
• doido
• extenuante

Definition of painful

• Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
• Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
• Very bad, poor

Examples

• His violin playing is painful.

Related words

• painfully
• painfulness
• painful on the eyes
• painful intercourse