Painful vs Painful - What's the difference?
painful | painful |
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
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
In now|_|rare|lang=en terms the difference between painful and painful
is that painful is while painful is .As adjectives the difference between painful and painful
is that painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.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 * painfulnesspainful
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
