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Aching vs Discomfort - What's the difference?

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Aching is a related term of discomfort.


As verbs the difference between aching and discomfort

is that aching is while discomfort is to cause annoyance or distress to.

As nouns the difference between aching and discomfort

is that aching is the feeling of an ache; a dull pain while discomfort is mental or bodily distress.

As an adjective aching

is that aches; continuously painful.

aching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That aches; continuously painful.
  • * (rfdate)
    • The aching' heart, the ' aching head.

    Derived terms

    * achingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The feeling of an ache; a dull pain.

    • discomfort

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mental or bodily distress.
  • Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause annoyance or distress to.
  • (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His funeral shall not be in our camp, / Lest it discomfort us.

    Usage notes

    As a verb, the unrelated term discomfit is often used instead, largely interchangeably, though this is proscribed by some as an error, (term) originally meaning “destroy”, not “distress”.

    Derived terms

    * discomforter

    See also

    * discomfit