| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | aching | hurting with a steady pain |
| 2. | acute | sharp and severe |
| 3. | agonizing | causing great pain or distress |
| 4. | anguished | suffering deep pain or distress |
| 5. | awful | very bad or painful |
| 6. | blinding | so severe it overwhelms |
| 7. | bruised | injured and sore |
| 8. | brutal | extremely harsh or painful |
| 9. | burning | feeling hot and painfully raw |
| 10. | chafed | rubbed sore |
| 11. | chronic | lasting a long time |
| 12. | clawing | tearing at you painfully |
| 13. | colicky | marked by cramping abdominal pain |
| 14. | constricting | tightening painfully |
| 15. | contracted | drawn tight painfully |
| 16. | cramping | causing muscle-spasm pain |
| 17. | crippling | severely limiting movement or function |
| 18. | cruel | causing suffering |
| 19. | crushing | pressing with heavy pain |
| 20. | debilitating | weakening and hard to function with |
| 21. | devastating | causing overwhelming emotional pain |
| 22. | distressing | causing suffering or worry |
| 23. | dull | not sharp but still painful |
| 24. | electric | like a sudden shock |
| 25. | excruciating | extremely painful |
| 26. | exhausting | very tiring and painful |
| 27. | gnawing | persistent and wearing pain |
| 28. | grievous | very severe or serious |
| 29. | gruelling | extremely tiring and painful |
| 30. | gut-wrenching | causing intense emotional pain |
| 31. | harrowing | deeply distressing or painful |
| 32. | harsh | severe and unpleasant |
| 33. | heart-rending | causing deep sorrow |
| 34. | heartbreaking | causing deep emotional pain |
| 35. | heavy | feeling weighted and painful |
| 36. | horrible | very unpleasant or painful |
| 37. | hurt | feeling physical or emotional pain |
| 38. | hurtful | causing emotional pain |
| 39. | incapacitating | making normal activity impossible |
| 40. | incessant | never stopping |
| 41. | inflamed | red, swollen, and painful |
| 42. | intense | extremely strong or severe |
| 43. | jolting | causing sudden shocklike pain |
| 44. | knotted | tight and painful |
| 45. | lacerating | causing deep tearing pain |
| 46. | lingering | lasting longer than expected |
| 47. | merciless | showing no relief or pity |
| 48. | miserable | very uncomfortable or unhappy |
| 49. | nagging | annoyingly persistent |
| 50. | needlelike | like tiny sharp needles |
| 51. | oppressive | weighing heavily and painfully |
| 52. | painful | causing physical or emotional pain |
| 53. | paralyzing | making movement or action impossible |
| 54. | persistent | continuing without stopping |
| 55. | piercing | very sharp and intense |
| 56. | pinching | causing a squeezing pain |
| 57. | pounding | beating heavily with pain |
| 58. | pressing | feeling like pressure |
| 59. | prickling | tingling with tiny sharp pains |
| 60. | pulsing | beating rhythmically with pain |
| 61. | punishing | causing severe strain or pain |
| 62. | racking | causing intense pain or strain |
| 63. | radiating | spreading outward from one point |
| 64. | raw | sore and exposed |
| 65. | relentless | continuing without easing |
| 66. | rigid | stiff and painful to move |
| 67. | ripping | feeling violently torn |
| 68. | rough | harsh and painful |
| 69. | searing | intensely burning |
| 70. | severe | very intense or serious |
| 71. | sharp | sudden and severe in pain |
| 72. | shooting | moving suddenly through the body |
| 73. | smarting | stinging with pain |
| 74. | sore | painful and tender |
| 75. | spasmodic | coming in sudden bursts |
| 76. | splitting | extremely severe, especially headache |
| 77. | stabbing | feeling like a knife strike |
| 78. | stinging | causing a sharp burning pain |
| 79. | strained | overstretched and painful |
| 80. | taut | stretched tight and sore |
| 81. | tender | painful when touched |
| 82. | tense | tight and strained |
| 83. | terrible | extremely bad or painful |
| 84. | throbbing | beating with repeated pain |
| 85. | tight | tense and uncomfortable |
| 86. | tingling | slightly prickly or numb |
| 87. | tormented | suffering severe pain |
| 88. | torturous | extremely painful or distressing |
| 89. | traumatic | deeply distressing or shocking |
| 90. | unbearable | too painful to endure |
| 91. | uncomfortable | causing slight pain or unease |
| 92. | unrelenting | not becoming less severe |
| 93. | upsetting | causing emotional pain |
| 94. | vicious | severe and cruel |
| 95. | violent | very forceful and painful |
| 96. | wearing | gradually exhausting |
| 97. | wounded | hurt by injury |
| 98. | wracking | causing severe distress or pain |
| 99. | wrenching | causing deep pain or distress |
| 100. | wretched | very unhappy or unwell |
