Wearing vs Painful - What's the difference?
wearing | painful | Related terms |
intended to be worn
* Clothes used to be called wearing apparel
causing tiredness
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causing erosion
The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
The act by which something is worn.
That which is worn; clothes; garments.
* Shakespeare
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
Wearing is a related term of painful.
As adjectives the difference between wearing and painful
is that wearing is intended to be worn while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.As a noun wearing
is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding.As a verb wearing
is .wearing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- formal crown-wearings
- Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)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
