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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Painful \Pain"ful\, adjective
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}, adverb -- {Pain"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
painfully
adverb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "painfully": abominably, agonizingly, arduously, awfully, badly, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deplorably, deucedly, difficultly, disagreeably, distressfully, distressingly, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously, hardly, harrowingly, harshly, heartbreakingly, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, laboriously, lamentably, miserably, nakedly, openly, pathetically, piteously, pitiably, rigorously, roughly, ruefully, sadly, severely, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, strenuously, terribly, the hard way, toilsomely, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unfortunately, unhappily, unpardonably, with difficulty, with much ado, woefully
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