Painful vs Toilsome - What's the difference?
painful | toilsome | Synonyms |
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
Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
*:‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’
As adjectives the difference between painful and toilsome
is that painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental while toilsome is requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.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
