Disastrous vs Painful - What's the difference?
disastrous | painful | Related terms |
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
Disastrous is a related term of painful.
As adjectives the difference between disastrous and painful
is that disastrous is of the nature of a disaster; calamitous while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.disastrous
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Synonyms
* (calamitous) cataclysmic, catastrophic * (ill-omened) ill-boding, , sinisterDerived terms
* disastrouslypainful
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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