Definition of Painless

1. Adjective. Requiring little hard work or exertion. "A painless solution to the problem"

Similar to: Easy

2. Adjective. Not causing physical or psychological pain. "Painless dentistry"
Also: Harmless
Similar to: Pain-free, Unpainful
Antonyms: Painful

Definition of Painless

1. a. Free from pain; without pain.

Definition of Painless

1. Adjective. Free from pain; without pain or trouble. ¹

2. Adjective. Not difficult; easy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Painless

1. not causing pain [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Painless

painful sensation
painful toe
painfull
painfuller
painfullest
painfully
painfulness
painfulnesses
painim
painims
paining
painite
painkiller
painkillers
painkilling
painless (current term)
painless haematuria
painless jaundice
painlessly
painlessness
painlessnesses
painlike
painmaker
painmakers
paino nobiles
pains
pains au chocolat
pains in the bum
painslut

Literary usage of Painless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"Production of painless Incisions without ... 15, 1873) that "mechanical injuries received from bodies moving at a high velocity are painless. ..."

2. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Liver, Jaundice and Abdominal Dropsy by Charles Murchison (1885)
"painless enlargements are further characterised by an absence of jaundice and ascites, ... Among painless enlargements we have the so-called amyloid liver, ..."

3. Perfect Womanhood for Maidens--wives--mothers: A Book Giving Full by Mary Ries Melendy (1903)
"It was prophesied fifty years ago, by eminent physicians, that the time was coming when painless childbirth would become an established fact. ..."

4. The Main Currents of Zoölogy by William Albert Locy (1918)
"painless SURGERY, ETC. No student of biology should be unacquainted with the circumstances leading up to the demonstration of the properties of anaesthetics ..."

5. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Patient — A painless and Bloodless Operation —A Patient Little Sufferer — Ministering Angels — Cutting off a Leg in Fifteen Seconds — A Swift Amputation ..."

6. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... a Patient — A painless and Bloodless Operation — A Patient Little Sufferer — Ministering Angels — Cutting off a Leg in Fifteen Seconds — A Swift ..."

7. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1919)
"THE controversies over the advantages and disadvantages of the various means of rendering child-bearing painless have spread the erroneous belief that ..."

8. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1888)
"painless TREATMENT OF RECTAL DISEASES. BY HM BROWN, MD, HILLSBORO, OHIO. It has occurred to me that in the vast majority of cases physicians are, ..."

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