English-Spanish translations for painful

• doloroso
  Srebrenica no solo tiene un pasado doloroso, también tiene un presente doloroso. Srebrenica not only has a painful past, it also has a painful present.
  Y mientras más tarde las reestructuremos, más doloroso será el ejercicio. And the later we restructure, the more painful the exercise.
  Este es el doloroso legado que hemos heredado. So this is the painful legacy we have inherited.
• adolorido
• dolorido

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