Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. / Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). / Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.

A surname.

Obsolete spelling of pain

In pain, especially in an emotional sense.

simple past tense and past participle of pain

present participle of pain

An English surname, of Norman derivation, meaning someone who lived outside of a city (See Latin pagus).

The state or quality of being painful, of causing pain. / The state or quality of being tedious, of requiring great care.

Used to warn of consequences if a specified act is done or not done: subject to the punishment of (some penalty); or (generally) subject to the circumstance of (some thing).

plural of painfulness