Difference between Painful and Difficult

PAINFUL vs DIFFICULT: ADJECTIVE

Painstaking; careful; industrious.
Requiring care and labor; difficult or irksome.
Distressing or embarrassing.
Causing mental anguish or suffering.
Marked by or requiring great care and diligence.
Full of or giving pain.
Exceptionally bad or displeasing
Causing physical discomfort
Causing physical or psychological pain
Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort.
Causing misery or pain or distress

Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Requiring much effort and trouble
Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish.
Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying.
Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain.
Not easy to please, satisfy, or manage.
Not easy to persuade or convince; stubborn.
Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn.
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort
Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc.
Hard to control

They can be very painful"
Synonyms and Racking, agonizing, tormenting, torturing, excruciating, arduous, severe, grievous, trying, afflictive.
Painstaking; industrious; busy; careful; laborious; hard-working.
That requires or necessitates labor, exertion, care, or attention; troublesome; difficult; toilsome.
That gives or is characterized by pain; of a nature to pain, render uneasy, or inflict suffering, whether bodily or mental; distressing: as, a painful operation in surgery; a painful effort; a painful subject.

To make difficult; impede.
To perplex; embarrass.
Not easy; requiring or dependent on effort; hard; troublesome; arduous.
Hard to please or satisfy; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere: as, a person of difficult temper.
Hard to persuade or induce; stubborn in yielding; obstinate as to opinion: as, he was difficult to convince.
Hard to understand or solve; perplexing; puzzling: as, a difficult passage in an author; a difficult question or problem.
Synonyms Difficult, Hard, Arduous (see arduous), laborious, toilsome; obscure, knotty.
Not easy
Hard to do, perform, or overcome; attended with labor, pains, or opposition; laborious: as, a difficult undertaking.

Irritating, Awful, Agonized, Dreadful, Poignant, Uncomfortable, Bitter, Terrible, Harrowing, Agonizing, Unpleasant, Torturous, Traumatic, Wrenching, Excruciating

Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky

Irritating, Awful, Agonized, Dreadful, Poignant, Uncomfortable, Bitter, Terrible, Harrowing, Agonizing, Unpleasant, Torturous, Traumatic, Wrenching, Excruciating

Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky

This may be painful, but is nonetheless beneficial.
Arthritis of the hand can be very painful.
This buildup of fluid can be very painful.
Sanctions are more painful when they cause more damage than expected, or when a period of growing prosperity gives way to a painful decline.
Produce Abscesses produce painful swelling at the anus as well as painful defecation.
If patient is bearing weight there is a painful limp to be observed as walking is painful.
When hands are swollen and painful from arthritis, cold packs can numb the painful joints and reduce swelling.
Maria, are the suffering in Purgatory more painful than the most painful sufferings on earth?
The symptoms of endometriosis include painful menstrual cramps, painful intercourse, diarrhea, constipation, and nausea.
This condition can cause painful bleeding, cramps and painful intercourse.

It certainly can make for a difficult marriage.
Find it difficult to get around your bathroom?
Metaphors are more difficult to teach than similes.
Times have been so difficult in recent months.
The use of cryptography is complex and difficult.
Slow and difficult process to retrieve boarding pass.
Calamity player, pure summoner would be insanely difficult.
You are saying it is more difficult, music is more difficult?
Some dailies are more difficult than others, a lot more difficult.
Advancing racial equity is already difficult, but then you add the scope and it becomes more difficult.