"pain-free" meaning in English

See pain-free in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: painfree [alternative]
Etymology: From pain + -free. Etymology templates: {{af|en|pain|-free}} pain + -free Head templates: {{en-adj|-|head=pain-free}} pain-free (not comparable)
  1. Without pain, free of pain. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: painless
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pain",
        "3": "-free"
      },
      "expansion": "pain + -free",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pain + -free.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "painfree",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "pain-free"
      },
      "expansion": "pain-free (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -free",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 24:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without pain, free of pain."
      ],
      "id": "en-pain-free-en-adj-HK4UK0MG",
      "links": [
        [
          "pain",
          "pain"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "painless"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pain-free"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pain",
        "3": "-free"
      },
      "expansion": "pain + -free",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pain + -free.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "painfree",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "pain-free"
      },
      "expansion": "pain-free (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms suffixed with -free",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 24:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without pain, free of pain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pain",
          "pain"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "painless"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pain-free"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pain-free meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.