'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]
Synonyms of 'painfully'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abominably,
- agonizingly,
- arduously,
- awfully,
- badly,
- baldly,
- balefully,
- bitterly,
- blatantly,
- brashly,
- confoundedly,
- cruelly,
- damnably,
- deadly,
- deathly,
- deplorably,
- deucedly,
- difficultly,
- disagreeably,
- distressfully,
- distressingly,
- dolorously,
- dreadfully,
- egregiously,
- excessively,
- excruciatingly,
- exorbitantly,
- extravagantly,
- flagrantly,
- frightfully,
- grievously,
- hardly,
- harrowingly,
- harshly,
- heartbreakingly,
- hellishly,
- horribly,
- improperly,
- inexcusably,
- infernally,
- inordinately,
- intolerably,
- laboriously,
- lamentably,
- miserably,
- nakedly,
- openly,
- pathetically,
- piteously,
- pitiably,
- rigorously,
- roughly,
- ruefully,
- sadly,
- severely,
- shatteringly,
- shockingly,
- something awful,
- something fierce,
- sorely,
- staggeringly,
- strenuously,
- terribly,
- the hard way,
- toilsomely,
- torturously,
- unashamedly,
- unbearably,
- unconscionably,
- unduly,
- unfortunately,
- unhappily,
- unpardonably,
- with difficulty,
- with much ado,
- woefully
Words containing 'Painfully'
- Pain,
- Pained,
- Painful,
- Painfulness,
- Paining,
- Pains,
- be at pains,
- paine,
- Paine Field,
- To die in the pain,
- chest pain,
- growing pains,
- labor pain,
- labor pains,
- labour pains,
- lumbar pain,
- mental pain,
- pain in the ass,
- pain in the neck,
- pain killer,
- pain pill,
- pain sensation,
- pain threshold,
- pain unit,
- painful sensation,
- referred pain,
- take pains,
- thomas paine,
- tom paine,
- Bill of pains and penalties,
- Paine Field, WA,
- To pain one's self,
- pain-free,
- painful vs painless,
- phantom limb pain,
- robert treat paine,
- pleasure-pain principle,
- Paine Field-Lake Stickney,
- Paine Field-Lake Stickney, WA