painless

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adjective

Free from pain; without pain or trouble.

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivepainless (comparative more painless, superlative most painless)

comparative more painless · superlative most painless

  1. Free from pain; without pain or trouble.

    There are now washless dishes, painless razors, painless shoes, painless corsets, prepared soups, painless photographs (it used to give you a stiff neck for three days to have your picture taken)[…]

    1924, Don Herold, So Human, page 40
  2. Not difficult; easy.

    At first it seemed like a very painless way to get my work done and I told Milly to let me sleepwrite as much as I liked. We discovered, however, that although my subconscious might lead me to the typewriter, it couldn't make me think.

    1952, Morris McNeil Musselman, Second Honeymoon, page 5

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite

adjectiverequiring little hard work or exertion

Similar

adjectivenot causing physical or psychological pain

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishpaynles
  2. Englishpainless

From Middle English paynles, peynlees, equivalent to pain + -less. Compare West Frisian pynleas (“painless”), Dutch pijnloos (“painless”).

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Translations

Afrikaans pynloos
  • pynlooswithout pain or trouble
Ancient Greek ἀνάλγητος, ἄλυπος
  • ἀνάλγητος (análgētos)without pain or trouble
  • ἄλυπος (álupos)without pain or trouble
Arabic غَيْر مُؤْلِم
  • غَيْر مُؤْلِم (ḡayr muʔlim)without pain or trouble
Bulgarian безболезнен
  • безболезнен (bezboleznen)without pain or trouble
Catalan indolor
  • indolorwithout pain or trouble
Chinese Mandarin 無痛 /无痛
  • 無痛 /无痛 (wútòng)without pain or trouble
Czech bezbolestný
  • bezbolestnýwithout pain or trouble
Danish smertefri
  • smertefriwithout pain or trouble
Dutch pijnloos
  • pijnlooswithout pain or trouble
Esperanto sendolora
  • sendolorawithout pain or trouble
Estonian valutu
  • valutuwithout pain or trouble
Finnish kivuton
  • kivutonwithout pain or trouble
French indolore
  • indolorewithout pain or trouble
German schmerzlos, schmerzfrei
  • schmerzloswithout pain or trouble
  • schmerzfreiwithout pain or trouble
Greek ανώδυνος άπονος
  • ανώδυνος άπονος (anódynos)without pain or trouble
Hungarian fájdalommentes, fájdalmatlan
  • fájdalommenteswithout pain or trouble
  • fájdalmatlanwithout pain or trouble
Italian indolore
  • indolorewithout pain or trouble
Japanese 無痛
  • 無痛 (mutsū)without pain or trouble
Lithuanian neskausmingas, beskausmis
  • neskausmingaswithout pain or trouble
  • beskausmiswithout pain or trouble
Māori kore mamae, tangatanga
  • kore mamaewithout pain or trouble
  • tangatangawithout pain or trouble
Norwegian Bokmål smertefri
  • smertefriwithout pain or trouble
Polish bezbolesny
  • bezbolesnywithout pain or trouble
Portuguese indolor
  • indolorwithout pain or trouble
Romanian nedureros, fără durere
  • nedureroswithout pain or trouble
  • fără durerewithout pain or trouble
Russian безболе́зненный
  • безболе́зненный (bezboléznennyj)without pain or trouble
Spanish sin dolor, indoloro
  • sin dolorwithout pain or trouble
  • indolorowithout pain or trouble
Swedish smärtfri
  • smärtfriwithout pain or trouble
Turkish ağrısız, acısız
  • ağrısızwithout pain or trouble
  • acısızwithout pain or trouble
Ukrainian безбо́лісний
  • безбо́лісний (bezbólisnyj)without pain or trouble
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