Bible Dictionaries
Painful

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

(2):

(a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious.

(3):

(a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Painful'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/painful.html. 1828.