Word: painful
Part of speech: Adjective
Syllables: pain
ful
Definition: Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
Morphemes:
Affix: pain
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
Etymology Compounds: Affix: poena
Language: la
Decoded: poena
Meaning: punishment, pain
Affix: -ful
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form adjectives from nouns. Full of, tending to, or thoroughly possessing the quality expressed by the noun.