"painsome" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more painsome [comparative], most painsome [superlative]
Etymology: From pain + -some. Compare hurtsome. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pain|some}} pain + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} painsome (comparative more painsome, superlative most painsome)
  1. Indicating or marked by pain; painful
    Sense id: en-painsome-en-adj-RpRLVY1i Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some

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          "ref": "1858, W.E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age",
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          "ref": "2003, Environment, Pollution and Management",
          "text": "Its painsome that majority of us do not recognize these valuable medicinal plants and are unknown about their therapeutic uses.",
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          "ref": "2005, Tabor Evans, Longarm Giant 24",
          "text": "For now everything was fixing to be all right. The boss was the copper king of Montana Territory. Anything the boss wanted to happen had to happen. The boss would make the painsome itching go away.",
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