painful

1. (archaic) Painstaking; careful; industrious.Examples: "The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle."; "To all these painful labourers Johnson shewed a never-ceasing kindness, so far as they stood in need of it."; "For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle"archaic

2. (informal) Very bad, poor.Examples: "His violin playing is painful."informal