painful Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Afflictive, distressing1. ăcerbus (bitter, trying)2. expr. by dŏlor, moeror, aegrĭtūdo, etc.III. Laborious • painful: I. Lit.: (a.) causing pain: expr. by dŏlor, crŭciātus, etc.: to be extremely p. (of an abscess), dolores magnos movere, Cels. 7, 12, 5: it (the pimple) is more p. than might be expected from its size, dolor ex ea (pustula) supra magnitudinem est, ib. 5, 28, 15: a disease which is both dangerous and very p., *morbus qui cum periculo summos etiam dolores habet: to bear in a manly way the most p. malady, *valetudinis cruciatus summos ac tormenta viriliter ferre. (b.) feeling pain, attended with pain: expr. by dŏleo (to be p.: v. to ache), indolescere (to grow p.), condolescere (to be in great pain): the last rare except in perf. tenses: to become increasingly p., magis indolescere, Cels. 5, 28, 11: if foot or tooth be p., si pes condoluit, si dens, [si tactum dolore corpus], Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52. (N.B.--Not acerbus; which is fig.: v. infr.) II. Afflictive, distressing: 1. ăcerbus (bitter, trying): p. recollection, a. memoria, Cic. Pl. 41, 99: in p. circumstances, in rebus a., Lucr. 3, 54. 2. expr. by dŏlor, moeror, aegrĭtūdo, etc.: what could be more p. than this? *hoc quid potest acriorem animo dolorem afferre? v. grief. III. Laborious: ŏpĕrōsus, dīlĭgens: v. laborious.