What does painfully mean?

painfully means "unpleasantly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in painfully?

painfully has 3 syllables: pain-ful-ly. The stress falls on "pain". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪnfəli/.

What is another word for painfully?

Close synonyms include distressingly, sorely. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of painfully?

The recorded antonyms are painlessly.

Is painfully a common word?

painfully is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Painfully — meaning, pronunciation and 2 senses

adverb

2 sensesA word that modifies a verb, adjective or other adverb.

1.
unpleasantly
“his ignorance was painfully obvious”
Synonymsdistressingly
2.
in or as if in pain
“she moved painfully forward”
“sorely wounded”
Synonymssorely
Antonymspainlessly

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What does painfully mean?: painfully means "unpleasantly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

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