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painfully |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Painful \Pain"ful\, a. 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. --Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden. Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. -- {Pain"ful*ly}, adv -- {Pain"ful*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: painfully adv 1: unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious" [syn: {distressingly}] 2: in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded" [syn: {sorely}] [ant: {painlessly}]
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