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# painfully

adverb (painfully)

«painfully» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Painfully means in a way that hurts or causes pain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#m1)
2. Painfully means very, so much that it is uncomfortable: painfully slow, painfully shy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories and everyday talk it intensifies: «painfully obvious» means extremely obvious, often embarrassingly. In health: «he walked painfully» shows an injury. Phrases: «painfully slow», «painfully shy», «painfully obvious», «painfully aware».

### Examples

- He limped painfully off the pitch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#x1)
- The queue moved painfully slowly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#x2)
- She was painfully shy on her first day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#x3)
- It was painfully obvious that he had not done his homework. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#x4)
- My sunburn felt painfully hot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#x5)
- The old dog climbed the stairs painfully. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#x6)
- So he pretended he was lame, and began to hobble painfully. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#x7)

### Note

From «painful» + «-ly»: two «l»s in «painfully». Often goes before an adjective to mean «very» in an unpleasant way.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «painfully» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«painfully» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/painfully.html) on Mova free.