Fierce vs Painful - What's the difference?
fierce | painful | Related terms |
Extremely violent, severe, ferocious or savage.
Resolute or strenuously active.
Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
(slang, Ireland, rural) very, excellent.
(slang, US) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
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
Fierce is a related term of painful.
As adjectives the difference between fierce and painful
is that fierce is extremely violent, severe, ferocious or savage while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.fierce
English
Adjective
(er)- A fierce storm battered the coast.
- We made a fierce attempt to escape.
- The lion gave a fierce roar.
- It was fierce cold.
- Q: "How was the party last night?" A: "Fierce !"
- Tyra said to strike a pose and make it fierce .
Derived terms
* something fierceAnagrams
*painful
English
(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