Painful /(?)/

Pain·ful

Painful

a.
  1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
  2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
  3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.]
    A very painful person, and a great clerk.
    Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.