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painfully

adverb

1 painfully

Unpleasantly:
— His ignorance was painfully obvious.

synonym: distressingly.

Roget 830: painfully etc. adj.; with pain etc. 828; deuced.   

2 painfully

In or as if in pain:
— She moved painfully forward.

synonym: sorely.

Roget 31: truly etc. (truth) 494 [in a positive degree]; decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: abominably, agonizingly, arduously, awfully, badly, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deplorably, deucedly, difficultly, disagreeably, distressfully ... show more.

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