different between painful vs recrudescent

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

From Latin recr?d?sc? (“I become raw again”); from re- + cr?d?sc? (“I become harsh or raw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?u(?)?d?s?nt/

Adjective

recrudescent (not comparable)

1. Breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression.

2. (archaic) Growing raw, sore, or painful again.

Hypernyms

• recurrent
• reemergent

Related terms

• recrudescence

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k?y.d?.s??/

Adjective

recrudescent (feminine singular recrudescente, masculine plural recrudescents, feminine plural recrudescentes)

1. recrudescent, reemerging

Related terms

• recrudescence

Further reading

• “recrudescent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French recrudescent

Adjective

recrudescent m or n (feminine singular recrudescent?, masculine plural recrudescen?i, feminine and neuter plural recrudescente)

1. recrudescent

Declension