PAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pained mean? 

• PAINED (adjective)
  The adjective PAINED has 1 sense:

1. emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed

  Familiarity information: PAINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed

Synonyms:

injured; offended; pained

Context example:

injured feelings

Similar:

displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)

 Context examples 

Holmes was silent and buried in thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds himself in a perplexing position.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sight of Betsey brought the image of little Mary back again, but she would not have pained her mother by alluding to her for the world.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was only life that pained.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

God knows that I do not want that you be pained; but it is need that we know all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was pained at this and sat still watching the operation of the fire.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was pained at the mistake, for I knew how keenly Holmes would feel any slip of the kind.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do not let me be pained by hearing any thing more on the subject.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Though stoutly mittened, my fingers were cold, and they pained from the grip on the steering-oar.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But all in vain; Catherine felt herself to be in the right, and though pained by such tender, such flattering supplication, could not allow it to influence her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Can a Frenchman upon French land not sit down in a French auberge without having his ears pained by the clack of their hideous talk?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)