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Marked is a related term of painful.


As adjectives the difference between marked and painful

is that marked is while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.

marked

English

Etymology 1

From (mark) (noun)

Alternative forms

*

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a visible or identifying mark.
  • # Of a playing card: having a secret mark on the back for cheating.
  • Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.
  • The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.
  • (linguistics) Of a word, form, or phoneme: distinguished by a positive feature.
  • e.g. in author'' and ''authoress , the latter is marked for its gender by a suffix.
  • singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.
  • A marked man.
    Usage notes
    * This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes written , rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.

    Etymology 2

    See (mark) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mark)
  • Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----

    painful

    Alternative forms

    * painfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • * 1843 , , Book 2, Ch. 2
  • For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle

    Synonyms

    * (full of pain) doleful, sorrowful, irksome, annoying * (requiring labor or toil) laborious, exerting

    Antonyms

    * (causing pain) painless, painfree

    Derived terms

    * painfully * painfulness