adverb + (adj.)painful emotionally, excruciatingly, extraordinarily, extremely, incredibly, intensely, less, most, particularly, personally, physically, politically, potentially, sometimes, terribly, too, unbearably, very

(adj.)painful + noun adjustment, ailment, arthritis, blister, blow, breakup, breath, bruise, bump, burn, childhood, compromise, concession, confrontation, contraction, cramp, death, defeat, dilemma, divorce, emotion, episode, experience, fracture, headache, hip, illness, infection, inflammation, injection, injury, intercourse, irony, joint, jolt, journey, kidney, knot, legacy, lesion, lesson, loss, lump, memory, neuropathy, ordeal, past, procedure, process, rash, reality, realization, recession, recovery, reminder, restructuring, sacrifice, sensation, separation, shock, spasm, stimulation, stimulus, sting, struggle, surgery, symptom, transition, truth, urination, wound [See all][See only the most frequent]