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adjective: filled with pain. calling for treatment and work; irksome: an unpleasant task. Archaic Diligent; cautious. Full of discomfort; causing uneasiness or distress, either actual or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. Requiring labor or toil; tough; performed with laborious energy. Painstaking; mindful; industrious. causing distress or pain or stress causing physical or emotional discomfort causing real vexation extremely bad or displeasing View More
others: that provides or perhaps is characterized by pain; of a nature to discomfort, render uneasy, or cause suffering, whether physical or emotional; distressing: as, an unpleasant operation in surgery; an unpleasant effort; a painful subject. that will require or necessitates work, exertion, treatment, or attention; problematic; difficult; toilsome. Painstaking; industrious; busy; careful; laborious; hard-working. Synonyms and Racking, agonizing, tormenting, torturing, excruciating, hard, serious, grievous, attempting, afflictive.View More
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