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Pailful vs Painful - What's the difference?

pailful | painful |

As a noun pailful

is an amount that would fill a pail.

As an adjective painful is

causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.

pailful

English

Alternative forms

*pailfull

Noun

  • An amount that would fill a pail.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
    • If / it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to / hide my head: yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by / pailfuls .

    painful

    English

    (wikipedia 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