Irritating vs Painful - What's the difference?
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Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
Stimulating]] or [[excite, exciting a response.
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
Irritating is a related term of painful.
As adjectives the difference between irritating and painful
is that irritating is causing irritation, annoyance or pain while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.As a verb irritating
is .irritating
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* nonirritatingVerb
(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