[
US
/ˈpeɪnɫəs/
]
[ UK /pˈeɪnləs/ ]
[ UK /pˈeɪnləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
requiring little hard work or exertion
a painless solution to the problem -
not causing physical or psychological pain
painless dentistry
How To Use painless In A Sentence
- When a person has any kind of injury - a broken shin, for example, or a sunburn - the pain system becomes hypersensitized, firing up in response to normally painless sensations induced by, for instance, walking or a gentle massage. Undefined
- If you have it in a narrow bed between wall and paving, life will be so much simpler and pruning will be a quick, painless job. Times, Sunday Times
- She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.
- It is spread through sexual contact with sores, which Mercer called chancre ulcers, that typically are painless. The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
- Abortion is not a painless procedure, it kills a living unborn baby and can scar a woman both emotionally and physically.
- Usually they are painless and only cause lameness under certain conditions, as when they begin to develop themselves under the stimulus of inflammatory action, or when large enough to interfere with the functions of the tendons, or again when they have undergone certain pathological changes, such as calcification, which is among their tendencies. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- Death by starvation and dehydration is neither painless nor euphoric.
- Crude surgery without anesthesia or asepsis has been replaced by modern painless surgery with its exquisite technical refinement. The Emperor of All Maladies
- The sores are usually relatively painless, and this procedure, like the urethral investigation, need give no cause for alarm.
- They had a go at trying to lift her up as painlessly as possible and failed miserably.