The sudden glare impinged painfully on his eyes.
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Painfully
//ˈpeɪnfəli//
Synonyms for "painfully" (81 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (40)
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Antonyms
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1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
18 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- боле́знено adv (in a painful manner)
Catalan
1 entries- dolorosament adv (in a painful manner)
Esperanto
1 entries- pene adv (in a painful manner)
Finnish
2 entries- kivuliaasti adv (in a painful manner)
- tuskallisesti adv (in a painful manner)
French
2 entries- douloureusement adv (in a painful manner)
- péniblement adv (in a painful manner)
Galician
1 entries- dolorosamente adv (in a painful manner)
German
1 entries- schmerzhaft adv (in a painful manner)
Hungarian
1 entries- fájdalmasan adv (in a painful manner)
Italian
1 entries- dolorosamente adv (in a painful manner)
Polish
1 entries- boleśnie adv (in a painful manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- dolorosamente adv (in a painful manner)
Russian
3 entries- бо́льно adv (in a painful manner)
- боле́зненно adv (in a painful manner)
- мучи́тельно adv (in a painful manner)
Spanish
1 entries- dolorosamente adv (in a painful manner)
Swedish
1 entries- plågsamt adv (in a painful manner)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
He was painfully thin.
Source: tatoeba (301673)
Your words wound painfully.
Source: tatoeba (738578)
She was painfully thin.
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