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adj. - Not accompanied by sensations that hurt.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Adjective : a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory. ,a painful life
  • Only the safe and unpainful have been published in recent years -- at least in ambitious, voluminous form.
  • Bek: I think that in the last 10-20 years, dentists in the US have become very careful and really treat patients with kid gloves in order to attract them essentially, marketing...
  • And indeed, hard and soft are names that we give to things only in relation to the constitutions of our own bodies; that being generally called hard by us, which will put us to...
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