"painless" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more painless [comparative], most painless [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English paynles, peynlees, equivalent to pain + -less. Compare West Frisian pynleas (“painless”), Dutch pijnloos (“painless”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|paynles}} Middle English paynles, {{m|enm|peynlees}} peynlees, {{af|en|pain|-less}} pain + -less, {{noncog|fy|pynleas|t=painless}} West Frisian pynleas (“painless”), {{noncog|nl|pijnloos|t=painless}} Dutch pijnloos (“painless”), {{root|en|ine-pro|*kʷey-}} Head templates: {{en-adj}} painless (comparative more painless, superlative most painless)
  1. Free from pain; without pain or trouble. Categories (topical): Pain Translations (without pain or trouble): pynloos (Afrikaans), ἀνάλγητος (análgētos) (Ancient Greek), ἄλυπος (álupos) (Ancient Greek), غَيْر مُؤْلِم (ḡayr muʔlim) (Arabic), ağrısız (Azerbaijani), бязбо́льны (bjazbólʹny) (Belarusian), безболезнен (bezboleznen) (Bulgarian), indolor (Catalan), 無痛 (Chinese Mandarin), 无痛 (wútòng) (Chinese Mandarin), bezbolestný (Czech), smertefri (Danish), pijnloos (Dutch), sendolora (Esperanto), valutu (Estonian), kivuton (Finnish), indolore (French), უმტკივნეულო (umṭḳivneulo) (Georgian), schmerzlos (German), schmerzfrei (German), ανώδυνος m άπονος (anódynos) (Greek), fájdalommentes (Hungarian), indolore (Italian), 無痛 (mutsū) (alt: むつう) (Japanese), neuphiandagh (Manx), kore mamae (Maori), tangatanga (Maori), smertefri (Norwegian Bokmål), smertefri (Norwegian Nynorsk), bezbolesny (Polish), indolor (Portuguese), nedureros (Romanian), fără durere (Romanian), безболе́зненный (bezboléznennyj) (Russian), безболан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), bezbolan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), sin dolor (Spanish), indoloro (Spanish), smärtfri (Swedish), ağrısız (Turkish), acısız (Turkish), безбо́лісний (bezbólisnyj) (Ukrainian), pynleas (West Frisian)
    Sense id: en-painless-en-adj-u2DLI03r Disambiguation of Pain: 67 33 Disambiguation of 'without pain or trouble': 98 2
  2. Not difficult; easy.
    Sense id: en-painless-en-adj-HL~uVzYO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -less Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 83 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 81 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -less: 30 70
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: painlessly, painlessness Related terms: pain-free

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          "sense": "without pain or trouble",
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          "sense": "without pain or trouble",
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "without pain or trouble",
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          "code": "ro",
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          "sense": "without pain or trouble",
          "word": "nedureros"
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "without pain or trouble",
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        },
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          "lang": "Turkish",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
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      "word": "bezbolestný"
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "smertefri"
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      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "pijnloos"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "sendolora"
    },
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      "code": "et",
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      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "valutu"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "kivuton"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "indolore"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "umṭḳivneulo",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "უმტკივნეულო"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "schmerzlos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "schmerzfrei"
    },
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      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "anódynos",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
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      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "análgētos",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "ἀνάλγητος"
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "álupos",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "ἄλυπος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "fájdalommentes"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "indolore"
    },
    {
      "alt": "むつう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mutsū",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "無痛"
    },
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "neuphiandagh"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "kore mamae"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "tangatanga"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "smertefri"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "smertefri"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "bezbolesny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "indolor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "nedureros"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "fără durere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bezboléznennyj",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "безболе́зненный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "безболан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "bezbolan"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "sin dolor"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "indoloro"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "smärtfri"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "ağrısız"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "acısız"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bezbólisnyj",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "безбо́лісний"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "without pain or trouble",
      "word": "pynleas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "painless"
}
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  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": áponos vs. anódynos",
  "path": [
    "painless"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "painless",
  "trace": ""
}

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