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painless

[ peyn-lis ]

adjective

  1. without pain; causing little or no pain:

    painless dentistry; a painless cure.

  2. Informal. not difficult; requiring little or no hard work or exertion.


ˈpainless

adjective

  1. not causing pain or distress
  2. not affected by pain
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈpainlessly, adverb
  • ˈpainlessness, noun
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Other Words From

  • painless·ly adverb
  • painless·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of painless1

First recorded in 1560–70; pain + -less
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Example Sentences

The testing process is simple and painless by analyzing, and drawing results from a hair sample.

Politicians, in their desire to win voter approval, exaggerated the possibilities of change by promising painless solutions and immediate results.

“Repairing our city budget won’t be a quick or painless process,” Gloria wrote in a statement.

Retailers need to understand that shopping experiences need to be quick and painless.

Like all of Wahoo’s cycling computers, the companion app makes it painless to upload routes from third-party sites like RideWithGPS and Strava.

The familiar and mournful theme song, “Suicide Is Painless,” filled the room.

A soon-to-be released app uses text streaming to make reading quick and painless.

Much debate centered on the necessary current and the current type (AC versus DC) to assure a rapid and painless death.

According to him, the process to obtain official marriage registration was fairly painless.

As long as you don't mind forgoing some of your pool time for a meeting with the lawyers, it all sounds pretty painless.

Could a course like hers have terminated more appropriately than with so beautiful, painless, and tranquil a passing away?

Three things that constitute a physician: a complete cure; leaving no blemish behind; a painless examination.

He had had a very happy life, with plenty of fun and plenty of kindness, and he had a very rapid and painless death.

The highest idea of the Hindu, as of the Buddhist, is to pass out into a sort of painless existence of nothingness.

Outside of a little cranking these once difficult experiences had now become practically painless.

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