Hurting vs Painful - What's the difference?
hurting | painful |
A sensation that hurts.
* 1997 , Michael Tye, Ten Problems of Consciousness
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
As a verb hurting
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun hurting
is a sensation that hurts.As an adjective painful is
causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.hurting
English
Noun
(en noun)- Surely, it may be urged, no one else can be the subject of my very hurtings or my very itchings. Other people can hurt or itch in the same way
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