Disabled vs Painful - What's the difference?
disabled | painful | Related terms |
Made incapable of use or action.
Having a disability, especially physical.
(legal) Legally disqualified.
One who is disabled (often used collectively as the disabled , but sometimes also singular).
(disable)
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
Disabled is a related term of painful.
As adjectives the difference between disabled and painful
is that disabled is made incapable of use or action while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.As a noun disabled
is one who is disabled (often used collectively as the disabled , but sometimes also singular).As a verb disabled
is (disable).disabled
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* incapacitated * invalidAntonyms
* enabledNoun
(en noun)Verb
(head)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
