| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | aching | causing or feeling dull pain |
| 2. | acute | sharp and severe |
| 3. | afflicting | causing pain or trouble |
| 4. | afflictive | causing suffering or distress |
| 5. | agonizing | causing extreme pain |
| 6. | awful | very bad or distressing |
| 7. | biting | sharply hurtful or cold |
| 8. | bitter | sharp, harsh, and hard |
| 9. | blistering | extremely hot or severe |
| 10. | bruised | sore from injury |
| 11. | bruising | physically or emotionally damaging |
| 12. | brutal | harsh and severe |
| 13. | burning | feeling hot and painful |
| 14. | caustic | burning or sharply hurtful |
| 15. | colicky | marked by cramping pain |
| 16. | convulsive | involving painful spasms |
| 17. | cramping | causing muscle-spasm pain |
| 18. | crampy | having cramp-like pain |
| 19. | crippling | severely disabling or painful |
| 20. | crushing | overwhelmingly hurtful or severe |
| 21. | cutting | deeply hurtful or sharp |
| 22. | damaging | causing harm or hurt |
| 23. | debilitating | weakening and hard to bear |
| 24. | devastating | causing overwhelming hurt or damage |
| 25. | dire | serious and painful |
| 26. | distressing | causing suffering or worry |
| 27. | drawn-out | lasting too long |
| 28. | dreadful | very bad and distressing |
| 29. | embarrassing | causing painful shame |
| 30. | enervating | causing weakness and fatigue |
| 31. | excruciating | extremely painful |
| 32. | exhausting | extremely tiring and difficult |
| 33. | feverish | hot, restless, and aching |
| 34. | fierce | intense and strong |
| 35. | gnawing | persistent and wearing pain |
| 36. | grievous | causing great suffering |
| 37. | gut-wrenching | causing deep emotional distress |
| 38. | harrowing | extremely distressing |
| 39. | heart-rending | causing intense sorrow |
| 40. | heartbreaking | causing deep emotional pain |
| 41. | horrible | causing great discomfort or distress |
| 42. | humiliating | causing painful loss of pride |
| 43. | hurtful | causing physical or emotional pain |
| 44. | incapacitating | making normal action impossible |
| 45. | inflamed | red, swollen, and sore |
| 46. | injurious | causing harm or injury |
| 47. | insufferable | too extreme to tolerate |
| 48. | intense | very strong or extreme |
| 49. | intractable | hard to control or relieve |
| 50. | irritated | sore or uncomfortable |
| 51. | lingering | lasting longer than expected |
| 52. | malignant | harmful and severe |
| 53. | merciless | showing no relief or pity |
| 54. | miserable | causing great discomfort or sadness |
| 55. | mortifying | causing intense embarrassment |
| 56. | nagging | continually troubling or hurting |
| 57. | nasty | very unpleasant or hurtful |
| 58. | oppressive | hard to endure |
| 59. | persistent | continuing for a long time |
| 60. | piercing | sharp and penetrating |
| 61. | poignant | deeply affecting and sad |
| 62. | poisonous | harmful or injurious |
| 63. | pounding | heavy and rhythmic with pain |
| 64. | prolonged | lasting a long time |
| 65. | punishing | extremely demanding or harsh |
| 66. | racking | causing intense suffering |
| 67. | radiating | spreading outward with pain |
| 68. | raw | sore and exposed |
| 69. | refractory | resistant to treatment or relief |
| 70. | relentless | continuing without relief |
| 71. | scalding | painfully hot |
| 72. | severe | very intense or harsh |
| 73. | sharp | sudden and piercing |
| 74. | shooting | moving suddenly with sharp pain |
| 75. | smarting | stinging with pain |
| 76. | sore | causing pain; aching |
| 77. | splitting | extremely severe, especially headache |
| 78. | stabbing | feeling like a knife wound |
| 79. | stinging | causing a sharp burning pain |
| 80. | tender | sensitive and sore to touch |
| 81. | terrible | extremely bad or severe |
| 82. | throbbing | beating with repeated pain |
| 83. | toothachey | aching like a toothache |
| 84. | tormenting | causing severe suffering |
| 85. | torturous | involving intense suffering |
| 86. | traumatic | deeply distressing or injurious |
| 87. | traumatizing | causing lasting emotional pain |
| 88. | unbearable | too painful to endure |
| 89. | unceasing | never stopping |
| 90. | uncomfortable | causing physical unease |
| 91. | unrelenting | not easing or weakening |
| 92. | unremitting | continuing without lessening |
| 93. | violent | involving strong force or pain |
| 94. | wearing | gradually exhausting or painful |
| 95. | wearisome | tiring and unpleasant |
| 96. | woeful | full of suffering or sorrow |
| 97. | wounded | hurt by injury |
| 98. | wounding | causing emotional hurt |
| 99. | wracking | causing severe distress or pain |
| 100. | wrenching | deeply upsetting or painful |