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painsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From pain + -some. Compare hurtsome.

Meanings

1. Indicating or marked by pain; painful
   • The sacrifice wasn't all that painsome as they dined alone on fancy French grub served on Sterling silver atop Irish linen with her hired help running back and forth from the kitchen. 2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm 270:
   • For now everything was fixing to be all right. The boss was the copper king of Montana Territory. Anything the boss wanted to happen had to happen. The boss would make the painsome itching go away. 2005, Tabor Evans, Longarm Giant 24:
   • 'If thou dost avow that thou art Augur to the Suitors, then often in prayer must thou have sugared my destruction, and desired my wife for thine own; wherefore thou shalt not escape the painsome bed of death.' 1858, W.E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age:
   • Its painsome that majority of us do not recognize these valuable medicinal plants and are unknown about their therapeutic uses. 2003, Environment, Pollution and Management:

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