agonizing vs painful

agonizing

adj
  • Causing physical or mental agony. 

noun
  • The act of one who agonizes. 

painful

adj
  • Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. 

  • Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). 

  • Very bad, poor. 

  • Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. 

How often have the words agonizing and painful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )