adj.
VERBS
▪ be , look , seem
▪ become , get
▪ find sth
▪
She found it unbearably ~ to speak.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ acutely , excruciatingly , horribly , incredibly , intensely , terribly , unbearably
▪ particularly
▪ increasingly
▪ almost
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
▪ potentially
▪ emotionally , physically
PREPOSITION
▪ to
▪
The subject of his failed marriage was quite ~ to him.
Painful is used with these nouns: ↑ blow , ↑ breakup , ↑ clarity , ↑ compromise , ↑ cramp , ↑ death , ↑ divorce , ↑ emotion , ↑ experience , ↑ feeling , ↑ grimace , ↑ grip , ↑ humiliation , ↑ illness , ↑ inflammation , ↑ joint , ↑ lesson , ↑ lump , ↑ memory , ↑ past , ↑ process , ↑ reality , ↑ realization , ↑ recollection , ↑ reminder , ↑ sensation , ↑ shock , ↑ slap , ↑ spasm , ↑ sting , ↑ swelling , ↑ transition , ↑ truth