Associations to the word «Painfully»
Noun
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
PAINFULLY, adverb. In a painful manner; as if in pain.
Dictionary definition
PAINFULLY, adverb. Unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious".
PAINFULLY, adverb. In or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.