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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: hurt or upset; "she looked offended"; "face had a pained and puzzled expression" [syn: offended, pained]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. feeling pain ; hurt 2. expressing or involving pain <a pained expression> <with pained surprise>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pain Pain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained; p. pr. & vb. n. Paining.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n.] 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5). 2. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him. Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --Locke . 3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. I am pained at my very heart. --Jer. iv. 19. To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] ``She pained her to do all that she might.'' --Chaucer. Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you have a pained expression or look, you look upset, worried, or slightly annoyed. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

aching, afflicted, aggrieved, agonized, anguished, bleeding, bruised, convulsed, crucified, cut, distressed, grieved, harrowed, hurt, hurting, in distress, in pain, injured, lacerated, martyred, martyrized, mauled, on the rack, racked, stung, suffering, tormented, tortured, twisted, under the harrow, wounded, wrung