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say it: paynd
pained is an adjective meaning "emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed". It is pronounced /ˈpeɪnd/ — paynd. It carries one recorded sense.
emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed
“she looked offended”
“face had a pained and puzzled expression”
“injured feelings”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pained come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.