"painful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

painful adjetivo

painful + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 210
painful death • painful memory • painful experience • painful process • painful condition • painful thing • painful decision • painful way • ...
verbo + painful
Kolokacji: 7
prove painful • become painful • look painful • grow painful • sound painful • ...
adverbio + painful
Kolokacji: 27
most painful • extremely painful • particularly painful • especially painful • excruciatingly painful • ...
(1) most, downright
Kolokacji: 2
(3) particularly, especially
Kolokacji: 2
1. pretty painful = całkiem bolesny pretty painful
2. somewhat painful = nieco bolesny somewhat painful
  • They stood still again, just inside the living room; the silence was somewhat painful for both of them, each on the other's account.
  • She pulled her hair out from under her, a difficult and somewhat painful task; it lay then between them like a river of fire.
  • George showed the full five years' increase of age, and seemed to have acquired a somewhat painful control of his temper.
  • She had always found the release of her corporeal being disconcerting and somewhat painful.
  • "There is no need, it seems to me, to have the three of us go through a somewhat painful scene."
  • The experience was fascinating and at the higher settings somewhat painful, actually remarkably so.
  • It's been a very long, very tiring and somewhat painful day.
  • Though many may find the program somewhat painful to watch, the overall effect is one of preventive enlightenment and hope.
  • He drew a deep and somewhat painful breath of cool, damp air.
  • It is somewhat painful and expensive, but usually permanent.
painful + preposición
Kolokacji: 5
painful for • painful to • painful in • painful at • painful of

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