painless
/ˈpeɪnləs
/adjective
1Not causing or suffering physical pain: a painless death...
- Yet, at the same time, once our pets become seriously ill, we are ready to ease their suffering and provide a painless end to their misery.
- Physicians are believed to know how to ensure a painless death, and they are in a position to offer palliative care knowledgeably.
- The punishment for this person consists of a quick painless death.
Synonyms
pain-free, under anaesthetic
1.1Involving little effort or stress: a painless way to travel...
- Every effort to make the transition smooth and painless will be appreciated.
- The company does a hundred little things to make traveling by air simple, easy, and painless.
- Thank you Norton, for making it easy and painless to get that info.
Synonyms
easy, trouble-free, effortless, undemanding, unexacting, simple, uncomplicated, smooth, plain sailing
informal as easy as pie, as easy as falling off a log, as easy as ABC, a piece of cake, child's play, a cinch
dated a snip
Derivatives
painlessness
/ noun ...- Lasers are said to have four advantages in surgery - safety, speed, painlessness and success.
- To the novice surgeons he states, ‘Perform them with each hand and with both together, your object being to attain ability, grace, speed, painlessness, elegance and readiness.’
- Our study suggests that the painlessness of the disease may be partly due to intraneural invasion of bacilli.
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