Difference between Aching and Painful

What is the difference between Aching and Painful?

Aching as an adjective is that aches; continuously painful. see ache while Painful as an adjective is full of pain; causing hurt, uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

Aching

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That aches; continuously painful. See ache

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.

Painful

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Full of pain; causing hurt, uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.Requiring effort, labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.Painstaking; careful; industrious

Example sentence: Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

We hope you now know whether to use Aching or Painful in your sentence.

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