Painful vs Afterbite - What's the difference?

painful | afterbite |

As an adjective painful

is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.

As a noun afterbite is

something that lingers after it is bitten, especially a smatch or flavour; aftertaste.

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

afterbite

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something that lingers after it is bitten, especially a smatch or flavour; aftertaste.

(figuratively, and, by extension) That which returns with a memory, usually one that is bitter or painful

* 2002 , Monica Wood, Secret Language :

She's dressed exactly like Faith, her hair winched into the same yellow braids. She can still feel the afterbite of Delle's nails as she raked the hair back, complaining.

* 2000 , Roger Kahn, Good Enough to Dream :

That is a marvelous month to start, particularly in the North where some April days sting with the afterbite of winter and others glow with summer promise.