different between injured vs painful
injured
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??nd??d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??nd??d/
- Hyphenation: in?jured
Verb
injured
- simple past tense and past participle of injure
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "injured" is often applied: man, woman, child, worker, employee, patient, athlete, player, driver, passenger, victim, animal, horse, dog, bird, body, knee, ankle, back, muscle, tissue, leg, arm, hand, foot, head, eye, feelings.
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painful
English
Alternative forms
- painfull (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English paynful, peinful, peynful, paynefull, peynefull, equivalent to pain +? -ful. Compare Danish pinefuld (“painful”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pe?n.f?l/
Adjective
painful (comparative painfuller or more painful, superlative painfullest or most painful)
- Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. [from 14th c.]
- Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). [from 15th c.]
- Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. [from 15th c.]
- (now rare) Painstaking; careful; industrious. [from 16th c.]
- 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, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2
- For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 142:
- (informal) Very bad, poor.
- His violin playing is painful.
Synonyms
- (full of pain): doleful, sorrowful, smartful, irksome, annoying
- (requiring labor or toil): laborious, exerting
Antonyms
- (causing pain): painless, painfree
Derived terms
- painfully
- painfulness
Translations
painful From the web:
- what painful thought haunted the speaker why
- what painful periods mean
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