adj
Meaning 1
Free from pain; without pain or trouble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
painless
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Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Not difficult; easy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
not causing physical or psychological pain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- painless dentistry
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: painful
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
requiring little hard work or exertion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a painless solution to the problem
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English paynles, peynlees, equivalent to pain + -less. Compare West Frisian pynleas (“painless”), Dutch pijnloos (“painless”).
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: pynloos — without pain or trouble
- Arabic: غَيْر مُؤْلِم (ḡayr muʔlim) — without pain or trouble
- Azerbaijani: ağrısız — without pain or trouble
- Belarusian: бязбо́льны (bjazbólʹny) — without pain or trouble
- Bulgarian: безболезнен (bezboleznen) — without pain or trouble
- Catalan: indolor — without pain or trouble
- Chinese Mandarin: 無痛 /无痛 (wútòng) — without pain or trouble
- Czech: bezbolestný — without pain or trouble
- Danish: smertefri — without pain or trouble
- Dutch: pijnloos — without pain or trouble
- Esperanto: sendolora — without pain or trouble
- Estonian: valutu — without pain or trouble
- Finnish: kivuton — without pain or trouble
- French: indolore — without pain or trouble
- West-Frisian: pynleas — without pain or trouble
- Georgian: უმტკივნეულო (umṭḳivneulo) — without pain or trouble
- German: schmerzlos — without pain or trouble
- German: schmerzfrei — without pain or trouble
- Greek: ανώδυνος άπονος (anódynos) — without pain or trouble
- Ancient Greek: ἀνάλγητος (análgētos) — without pain or trouble
- Ancient Greek: ἄλυπος (álupos) — without pain or trouble
- Hungarian: fájdalommentes — without pain or trouble
- Hungarian: fájdalmatlan — without pain or trouble
- Italian: indolore — without pain or trouble
- Japanese: 無痛 (mutsū) — without pain or trouble
- Lithuanian: neskausmingas — without pain or trouble
- Lithuanian: beskausmis — without pain or trouble
- Manx: neuphiandagh — without pain or trouble
- Māori: kore mamae — without pain or trouble
- Māori: tangatanga — without pain or trouble
- Norwegian Bokmål: smertefri — without pain or trouble
- Norwegian Nynorsk: smertefri — without pain or trouble
- Polish: bezbolesny — without pain or trouble
- Portuguese: indolor — without pain or trouble
- Romanian: nedureros — without pain or trouble
- Romanian: fără durere — without pain or trouble
- Russian: безболе́зненный (bezboléznennyj) — without pain or trouble
- Serbo-Croatian: безболан — without pain or trouble
- Serbo-Croatian: bezbolan — without pain or trouble
- Spanish: sin dolor — without pain or trouble
- Spanish: indoloro — without pain or trouble
- Swedish: smärtfri — without pain or trouble
- Turkish: ağrısız — without pain or trouble
- Turkish: acısız — without pain or trouble
- Ukrainian: безбо́лісний (bezbólisnyj) — without pain or trouble