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painfully
painfully /ˈpeɪn.fəl.i/ adverb
1 F0 in a way that causes pain: » Without surgery, this animal will die slowly and painfully.Thesaurus+: ↑Pain and painful2 F0 used to emphasize a quality, action, or situation that is unpleasant or not wanted: » I am painfully aware that I have made mistakes.» It was a painfully slow journey.Thesaurus+: ↑Serious and unpleasant , ↑Not attractive to look at , ↑Informal words for badWord Builder:–Nouns: pain–Adjectives: pained, painful, painless–Verbs: pain–Adverbs: painfully, painlessly |