different between scratched vs painful
scratched
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk?æt??t/
- Rhymes: -æt?t
Adjective
scratched (comparative more scratched, superlative most scratched)
- Produced by scratching.
Verb
scratched
- simple past tense and past participle of scratch
scratched From the web:
- what scratched sookie in season 2
- what scratched my car
- what scratched nick fury's eye
- what scratched thanos face
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- scratched meaning
- what scratched teflon
- what's scratched in french
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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