pain-free

English

Alternative forms

• painfree

Etymology

From pain +‎ -free.

Adjective

pain-free (not comparable)

1. Without pain, free of pain.

   Synonym: painless

   • 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 24:

     By now you're probably starting to get my drift that cutting costs in today's rail industry is not going to be either easy or pain-free.

Translations

without pain — see painless

References

• “pain-free”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.