Difference in English
| Hurtful | Causes emotional pain or hurts your feelings |
| Painful | It’s more about physical pain |
Think of hurtful as something that “hurts your heart”. Think of painful as something that “hurts your body”.
Examples
| Insensitive remarks can be hurtful. |
| Every movement is painful. |
Hurtful and painful sound different too:
Other examples with hurtful and painful
| Tom said something hurtful to Layla. |
| What a hurtful thing to say! |
| A hurtful word continues to dig like a knife. |
| Is teeth cleaning painful? |
| That was painful to watch. |
| Giving birth is extremely painful. |
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