Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not painful; giving no pain.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not accompanied by pain sensations

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Examples

  • Participants in the study were first tested to see how much pain they could withstand, and before you get the image of some guy being tortured on a medieval rack in your head, you should know that the "pain" was unpainful things like seeing how long you could take having a bag of ice on your skin.

    Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: If You Don't Laugh at This You Could Die Todd Hartley 2011

  • Bek: I think that in the last 10-20 years, dentists in the US have become very careful and really treat patients with kid gloves in order to attract them essentially, marketing themselves as a good, unpainful dentist to choose.

    Der Zahnarzt, Revisited C N Heidelberg 2008

  • And indeed, hard and soft are names that we give to things only in relation to the constitutions of our own bodies; that being generally called hard by us, which will put us to pain sooner than change figure by the pressure of any part of our bodies; and that, on the contrary, soft, which changes the situation of its parts upon an easy and unpainful touch.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Only the safe and unpainful have been published in recent years -- at least in ambitious, voluminous form.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • With a curious, unpainful self-analysis he noted that the older members of the party, who in the course of nature were so much nearer death, did not shrink from its shows; but the young girl and the young man had not borne to look on them, and had quickly escaped from the place, somewhere outside the gate.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

  • With a curious, unpainful self-analysis he noted that the older members of the party, who in the course of nature were so much nearer death, did not shrink from its shows; but the young girl and the young man had not borne to look on them, and had quickly escaped from the place, somewhere outside the gate.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • With a curious, unpainful self-analysis he noted that the older members of the party, who in the course of nature were so much nearer death, did not shrink from its shows; but the young girl and the young man had not borne to look on them, and had quickly escaped from the place, somewhere outside the gate.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • A playfulness has revisited my mind; a sympathy with the young and gay; an unpainful interest in the business of others; a light and wandering curiosity; arising, perhaps, from the sense that my toil on earth is ended, and the brief hour till bedtime may be spent in play.

    The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • A playfulness has revisited my mind -- a sympathy with the young and gay, an unpainful interest in the business of others, a light and wandering curiosity -- arising, perhaps, from the sense that my toil on earth is ended and the brief hour till bedtime may be spent in play.

    Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • There the change, though it was gradual and unpainful, according to the gentlest laws of nature, has been entire and complete.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

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