Hypertext Webster Gateway: "painfully"
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) 1.7 (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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