Painful vs Disquieting - What's the difference?

Painful is a synonym of disquieting.

As adjectives the difference between painful and disquieting

is that painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental while disquieting is causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

As a verb disquieting is

As a noun disquieting is

the act by which someone or something is disquieted.

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

disquieting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

The act by which someone or something is disquieted.

* Edward Reynolds

Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience