plågsam
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
plåga + -sam. Attested since 1712. Compare Danish plagsom. See also English plaguesome.
Adjective edit
plågsam (comparative plågsammare, superlative plågsammast)
- causing or associated with moderately severe or worse suffering (usually physical pain); painful, agonizing, (in the agonizing sense) excruciating
- plågsamma djurförsök
- painful (causing significant pain) animal testing
- en plågsam sjukdom
- a painful disease
Usage notes edit
More painful-sounding compared to "painful" by default, but not necessarily (though sometimes) of excruciating pain.
Declension edit
| Inflection of plågsam | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | plågsam | plågsammare | plågsammast |
| Neuter singular | plågsamt | plågsammare | plågsammast |
| Plural | plågsamma | plågsammare | plågsammast |
| Masculine plural3 | plågsamme | plågsammare | plågsammast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | plågsamme | plågsammare | plågsammaste |
| All | plågsamma | plågsammare | plågsammaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- smärtsam (“painful”)