Difference between Painful and Stinging

PAINFUL vs STINGING: NOUN

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.
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.
Painstaking; careful; industrious.
Causing misery or pain or distress

Having a sting or the capacity to sting
Causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks
(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting
Same as Lasso cell, under Lasso.
Having the capacity to sting.

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.
They can be very painful"
Synonyms and Racking, agonizing, tormenting, torturing, excruciating, arduous, severe, grievous, trying, afflictive.

That uses a sting; furnished with a sting or stinging organs of any sort; urticating: as, a stinging insect or sea-nettle.
In botany, noting a plant furnished with stinging hairs. See sting, 2.
That pierces or wounds as with a sting; that causes acute pain, irritation, or the like; keen; sharp; pungent; telling: as, a stinging tongue; a stinging rebuke or remark.
A kind of pain

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

Withering, Scathing, Nettles, Harrowing, Frustrated, Irritated, Angry, Acrid, Damning, Cutting, Edged, Prickling, Tingling, Unkind, Painful

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

Withering, Scathing, Nettles, Harrowing, Frustrated, Irritated, Angry, Acrid, Damning, Cutting, Edged, Prickling, Tingling, Unkind, Painful

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.

This agent also may cause stinging and burning.
Feels very comfortable, no stinging for delicate mucosa.
Stinging insect allergy: current perspectives on venom immunotherapy.
At first all he felt was the stinging.
My body convulses at the sweet, stinging bite.
Anna pulled away, her eyes stinging with tears.
ENGLISH : Australian tree nettle, Fibrewood, Mulberry-leaved stinger, Mulberry-leaved stinging tree, Shining-leaved stinging tree.
The most danger this stingray poses is stinging people who mistakenly step on it or stinging fishermen who catch it in nets.
Stinging tentacles: Stinging tentacles are found around the margin (edge) of the bell.
Laportea the eastern central parts This plant stinging hairs stinging nettle in its broader, alternately arranged terminal inflorescence.