painfully

Definitions

In a way that causes physical or emotional suffering.

To an extreme or unpleasant degree.

In a manner that is slow, difficult, or laborious.

Examples

The team was painfully aware that they had lost their chance at the championship.

He spoke slowly and painfully, struggling to find the right words after his long recovery.

The project was painfully behind schedule, forcing the entire department to work through the weekend.

Synonyms

agonizingly excruciatingly distressingly severely acutely intensely tormentingly

Antonyms

pleasantly comfortably easily delightfully painlessly effortlessly agreeably