Probing vs Painful - What's the difference?
probing | painful | Related terms |
Of something that investigates or explores deeply.
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
Probing is a related term of painful.
As adjectives the difference between probing and painful
is that probing is of something that investigates or explores deeply while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.As a noun probing
is the action of investigating]] or [[explore|exploring.As a verb probing
is .probing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was unsettled by her probing questions.
Synonyms
* exploring, investigating, questioningVerb
(head)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