painless

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

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painless (comparative more painless, superlative most painless)

1. Free from pain; without pain or trouble.
   • 1924, Don Herold, So Human, page 40:

     There are now washless dishes, painless razors, painless shoes, painless corsets, prepared soups, painless photographs (it used to give you a stiff neck for three days to have your picture taken) […]

2. Not difficult; easy.
   • 1952, Morris McNeil Musselman, Second Honeymoon, page 5:

     At first it seemed like a very painless way to get my work done and I told Milly to let me sleepwrite as much as I liked. We discovered, however, that although my subconscious might lead me to the typewriter, it couldn't make me think.

(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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