painsome

English

Etymology

From pain +‎ -some. Compare hurtsome.

Adjective

painsome (comparative more painsome, superlative most painsome)

1. Indicating or marked by pain; painful
   • 1858, W.E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age:

     '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.'

   • 2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm 270:

     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.

   • 2003, Environment, Pollution and Management:

     Its painsome that majority of us do not recognize these valuable medicinal plants and are unknown about their therapeutic uses.

   • 2005, Tabor Evans, Longarm Giant 24:

     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.

Anagrams

• Epsomian