'Painfully' definitions:

Definition of 'painfully'

(from WordNet)
adverb
Unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious" [syn: painfully, distressingly]
adverb
In or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded" [syn: painfully, sorely] [ant: painlessly]

Definition of 'Painfully'

From: GCIDE
  • Painful \Pain"ful\, a.
  • 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
  • Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. [1913 Webster] -- {Pain"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Pain"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]