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Sagacious vs Painful - What's the difference?

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Sagacious is a related term of painful.


As adjectives the difference between sagacious and painful

is that sagacious is having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.

sagacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * sagaciously * sagaciousness

    References

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    painful

    Alternative forms

    * painfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • * 1843 , , Book 2, Ch. 2
  • 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, exerting

    Antonyms

    * (causing pain) painless, painfree

    Derived terms

    * painfully * painfulness