painless
adjEtymology From Middle English paynles, peynlees, equivalent to pain + -less. Compare West Frisian pynleas (“painless”), Dutch pijnloos (“painless”).
1
Free from pain; without pain or trouble.
- 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)[…]1924, Don Herold, So Human, page 40:
2
Not difficult; easy.
- 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.1952, Morris McNeil Musselman, Second Honeymoon, page 5:
- Antonyms
- painful
- Derived terms
- painlessly, painlessness
- Related terms
- pain-free