Painful vs X - What's the difference?
painful | x |
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
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As an adjective painful
is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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