Associations to the word «Painfully»

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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne