painfully

Adverb

Meaning

unpleasantly

in or as if in pain

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sorely distressingly unfortunately sadly hard heavily badly hardly critically painful intensely acutely horribly miserably cruelly
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Antonyms

painlessly easily freely lightly happily comfortably
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Phrases with the word

painfully cold painfully slow be painfully relatable

Examples

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. Jim Carrey

To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. H. L. Mencken

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully. Joseph Conrad

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. Isaac Bashevis Singer

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet. Mahatma Gandhi

Close letter words and terms

painful tightening of a muscle painful wind painfull painfully cold painfully slow painfulness