painfully

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
21
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈpeɪnfəli/

Definition of painfully

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a painful manner; as if in pain.
    “I limped painfully down the stairs.”
    “The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.”
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adv

  1. In a painful manner; as if in pain.
    “I limped painfully down the stairs.”
    “The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.”
  2. (informal)Badly; poorly.
    “That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English peinfully, paynefully, equivalent to painful + -ly.

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