painfulとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English paynful, peinful, peynful, paynefull, peynefull, equivalent to pain +‎ -ful. Compare Danish pinefuld (“painful”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪn.fəl/
• 韻: -eɪnfəl

形容詞

painful (comparative painfuller または more painful, superlative painfullest または most painful)

1. Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. [from 14th c.]
2. Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part または, formerly, of a person). [from 15th c.]
3. Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. [from 15th c.]
4. (now rare) Painstaking; careful; industrious. [from 16th c.]
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 142:

     The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 2, in Past and Present, New York, N.Y.: William H. Colyer, […], published May 1843, OCLC 10193956, book:

     For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle

5. (informal) Very bad, poor.

   His violin playing is painful.

同意語

• (full of pain): doleful, sorrowful, smartful, irksome, annoying
• (requiring labor または toil): laborious, exerting

反意語

• (causing pain): painless, painfree

派生語

• painfully
• painfulness