painful in English: Causing pain; making you hurt in your body or your feelings. (adjective)

Translation

Causing pain; making you hurt in your body or your feelings.

Word origin

From pain plus the ending -ful, meaning full of pain; pain itself comes from Latin poena, punishment.

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"Painful" describes the cut; it still hurts.

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Here "painful" is about feelings, not the body.

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The action of walking caused pain.

pain

The bad feeling in your body when you are hurt or ill.

hurt

To cause pain to someone, or to feel pain.

suffer

To feel pain, sadness, or other bad things, often for a long time.

injury

Harm done to the body, for example in an accident or a game.

sick

Not well in your body.

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