painfully
/ˈpeɪnfəli/
painfully adverb: in a painful manner; as if in pain.
Adverb
painfully (comparative more painfully, superlative most painfully)
- In a painful manner; as if in pain.
- I limped painfully down the stairs.
- The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IX, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page...
- Badly; poorly.
- That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.
painfully meaning in Marathi and Malayalam
painfully in Marathi
- वेदनादायकपणे
painfully in Malayalam
- disturbingly, distressingly, unendurably
- വേദനയോടെ, വേദനാകരമായ, അഴലോടെ, ദുഃഖത്തോടെ, ദുഖേന, ശോകാവഹമായി
Forms of painfully
| comparative | more painfully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most painfully |
Origin of painfully
From Middle English peinfully, paynefully, equivalent to painful + -ly.
Questions about painfully
- What does painfully mean?
- Painfully means in a painful manner; as if in pain.
- What is painfully in Marathi?
- Painfully in Marathi is वेदनादायकपणे. See Painfully meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is painfully?
- Painfully is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce painfully?
- Painfully is pronounced /ˈpeɪnfəli/.
Words near painfully in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: painfully (page history and authors); painfully (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); painfully (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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