1
[ adverb ] unpleasantly

Synonyms

distressingly

Examples

"his ignorance was painfully obvious"

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

Time_and_again in counseling and teaching , one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern_world are only_too painfully obvious .

(Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)

Now the_English are painfully silent about my missing hands .

(Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)

John 's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary .

Related terms

atrocious deplorable atrocious deplorable

2
[ adverb ] in or as if in pain

Synonyms

sorely

Examples

"she moved painfully forward" "sorely wounded"

Related terms

painlessly painful sensitive sensitive

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Rhymes with

gainfully playfully gracefully gratefully faithfully manfully tastefully dreadfully helpfully successfully unsuccessfully respectfully regretfully anencephaly peacefully thankfully wrongfully carefully developmentally centrally operationally gravitationally occasionally educationally personally wonderfully meaningfully masterfully awfully finally fatally nasally unintentionally mentally radially delightfully frightfully environmentally mercifully purposefully joyfully crazily kennelly racially rightfully gleefully generally experimentally internally environmentally developmentally perennially accidentally coincidentally incidentally externally fundamentally temperamentally hastily tactfully skillfully woefully lawfully ruefully blissfully wistfully unlawfully forcefully experimentally temperamentally fundamentally mentally tearfully willfully artfully wilfully usefully fitfully preferentially essentially tangentially generally obscenely eternally eventually serenely sequentially coincidentally governmentally potentially confidentially accidentally exponentially professionally technically superficially frantically manually involuntarily subfamily nattily family annually napoli ordinarily extraordinarily hopefully cheerfully truthfully thoughtfully wishfully governmentally merrily geographically terminally temporally pitifully dutifully heavily personally peripherally educationally operationally occasionally wearily hyperbole exceptionally momentarily voluntarily secondarily readily temporarily warily professionally philosophically cynically uncannily angrily continually anomaly noisily electronically horizontally hungrily chronically monopoly minimally connolly semiannually scientifically scantily sardonically clinically customarily speedily seasonally universally primarily steadily severally testily federally easily loyally royally viscerally unilaterally peripherally liberally partially supremely especially impartially specially bilaterally literally federally perpetually artificially beneficially uneasily virtually functionally officially necessarily intrinsically militarily frantically architecturally initially clumsily romantically unofficially arbitrarily handily horizontally substantially jauntily financially provincially

Phonetic and Homophones

P EY1 N F AH0 L IY0

Similar Spelling

painful painfulness panoply pain_pill

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