Woeful vs Painful - What's the difference?
woeful | painful | Related terms |
Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
wretched; paltry; poor
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
Woeful is a related term of painful.
As adjectives the difference between woeful and painful
is that woeful is full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity while painful is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.woeful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace! — Daniel.
- a woeful event
- a woeful lack of restraint
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! — Pope.
Synonyms
* See alsopainful
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