different between painful vs angor

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)

1. Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. [from 14th c.]
2. Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). [from 15th c.]
3. Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. [from 15th c.]
4. (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

5. (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

English

Etymology

Latin angor. See anger.

Noun

angor

1. (medicine, dated) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

Anagrams

• Garon, Goran, Grano, Ongar, Ragon, Rogan, Ronga, argon, groan, nagor, orang, organ, rag on, rango

French

Noun

angor m (uncountable)

1. angina pectoris

Synonyms

• angine de poitrine

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?an.?or/, [?ä???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?an.?or/, [?????r]

Noun

angor m (genitive ang?ris); third declension

1. strangulation
2. anguish, torment, trouble, vexation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Spanish: angor

Verb

angor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of ang?

References

• angor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• angor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• angor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh angor, from Latin ancora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??r/

Noun

angor m or f (plural angorau or angorion)

1. anchor

Derived terms

• angori (“to anchor”)
• bwrw angor (“to drop anchor, to cast anchor”)
• codi angor (“weigh anchor”)
• gollwg angor (“to drop anchor, to cast anchor”)
• wrth angor (“at anchor, anchored”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “angor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies