Burning vs Painful - What's the difference?
burning | painful | Synonyms |
So hot as to seem to burn (something).
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= Feeling very hot.
Feeling great passion.
Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
The act by which something burns or is burned.
* 1828 , Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
* 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
A fire.
Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 142:
* 1843 , , Book 2, Ch. 2
Burning is a synonym of painful.
As adjectives the difference between burning and painful
is that burning is so hot as to seem to burn (something) while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.As a verb burning
is .As a noun burning
is the act by which something burns or is burned.burning
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- Like a young hound upon a burning scent.
Noun
(en noun)- It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance
- The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
- The burnings continued all day.
painful
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(wikipedia painful)Alternative forms
* painfull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)- The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull , and the men often idle.
- For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle
