Painful vs Misery - What's the difference?
painful | misery |
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
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
(Extreme) poverty.
Greed; avarice.
As an adjective painful
is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.As a noun misery is
great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.painful
English
(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
Synonyms
* (full of pain) doleful, sorrowful, irksome, annoying * (requiring labor or toil) laborious, exertingAntonyms
* (causing pain) painless, painfreeDerived terms
* painfully * painfulnessmisery
English
Noun
(miseries)- Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face .
