painful

adjective5

1. •
   causing hurt to the body, or making someone feel very sad or upset

   • In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow. — 2009
2. •
   (informal) Very bad, poor.

   • His violin playing is painful.
3. •
   Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
4. •
   Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
5. •
   (no longer used) Painstaking; careful; industrious.

   • To all these painful labourers Johnson shewed a never-ceasing kindness, so far as they stood in need of it. — 1791