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# painfully

«painfully» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a way that hurts or causes pain** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (painfully)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Painfully means in a way that hurts or causes pain. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [Soil grows painfully slowly: a few centimetres can take hundreds to a thousand years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «painfully» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painfully/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.