painfully, distressingly
(adverb) unpleasantly; “his ignorance was painfully obvious”
painfully, sorely
(adverb) in or as if in pain; “she moved painfully forward”; “sorely wounded”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
painfully (comparative more painfully, superlative most painfully)
In a painful manner; as if in pain.
(informal) Badly; poorly.
Some adjectives commonly collocating with painfully: thin, long, slow, boring, close
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 May 2025
(adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
