Difference between Painful and Irritating

PAINFUL vs IRRITATING: ADJECTIVE

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

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.
They can be very painful"
That requires or necessitates labor, exertion, care, or attention; troublesome; difficult; toilsome.
Painstaking; industrious; busy; careful; laborious; hard-working.
Synonyms and Racking, agonizing, tormenting, torturing, excruciating, arduous, severe, grievous, trying, afflictive.

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

Stimulative, Teasing, Vexing, Nettlesome, Pestiferous, Pestering, Vexatious, Painful, Pesky, Irritative, Uncomfortable, Galling, Disagreeable, Bothersome, Annoying

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

Stimulative, Teasing, Vexing, Nettlesome, Pestiferous, Pestering, Vexatious, Painful, Pesky, Irritative, Uncomfortable, Galling, Disagreeable, Bothersome, Annoying

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.

One in three recyclers finds that very irritating.
UVA and UVB rays without irritating sensitive skin.
Ugh, that lecturer you mentioned sounds seriously irritating.
No more irritating ringtones, just use that flash.
Great tool for business, has some irritating features.
These can be very irritating to sensitive skin.
It was, I felt, a rather irritating habit.
Very irritating considering I never asked for extensions.
The irritating bastards everyone else had hoped to lose clung on in their posts as irritating bastards always do.
Page that an exceptionally irritating witness had eventually succeeded in irritating the Judge.