Usually means: Experiencing discomfort in an intense manner.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word painfully:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. painfully: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. painfully: Merriam-Webster
  3. painfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. painfully: Collins English Dictionary
  5. painfully: Vocabulary.com
  6. Painfully, painfully: Wordnik
  7. painfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. painfully: Wiktionary
  9. painfully: Dictionary.com
  10. painfully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. painfully: Rhymezone
  12. painfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. painfully: FreeDictionary.org
  14. painfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. painfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. painfully: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. painfully: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a painful manner; as if in pain.
▸ adverb:  (informal) Badly; poorly.

Similar:
distressingly, sorely, painedly, dolorously, achingly, hurtfully, agonizingly, excruciatingly, anguishedly, sadistically, more...

Opposite:
painlessly, comfortably, with ease

Types:
excruciatingly, agonizingly, excruciating, agonizing, more...

Phrases:
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, painfully slow, burn painfully, painfully obvious, painfully hard, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     maroon,     burgundy,     blood red, more...



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Similar:
distressingly, sorely, painedly, dolorously, achingly, hurtfully, agonizingly, excruciatingly, anguishedly, sadistically, more...

Opposite:
painlessly, comfortably, with ease

Types:
excruciatingly, agonizingly, excruciating, agonizing, more...

Phrases:
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, painfully slow, burn painfully, painfully obvious, painfully hard, painfully long, painfully familiar, painfully awkward, painfully boring, rub painfully, painfully loud, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     maroon,     burgundy,     blood red, more...



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