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View definitions for painfully

painfully

adverb as in with pain

Strongest match

Strong match

adverb as in with extreme care

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Prophet, who’s painfully aware of the fire history of the Palisades, was immediately worried.

The first few weeks of 2025 have made the urgent need for ethics reform at the Supreme Court painfully clear.

From Salon

As the smoke plumes resembling volcanic eruptions rose to the north, east and south of the San Fernando Valley, it was painfully clear what mattered.

From Salon

Of all the legacies of Jimmy Carter, his engagement with the Middle East might have been the most complex and consequential — and perhaps the most painfully incomplete.

The limits of American power were painfully apparent during the Iranian hostage crisis a year later, after US embassy staff in Tehran were taken prisoner.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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