painless

From Middle English paynles, peynlees, equivalent to pain +‎ -less. Compare West Frisian pynleas (“painless”), Dutch pijnloos (“painless”).

painless (comparative more painless, superlative most painless)

1. Free from pain; without pain or trouble.
2. Not difficult; easy.

(free from pain): acheless, pain-free, unaching

• painful

• painlessly
• painlessness

• pain-free

• “painless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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