painfully Definition

1. Causing pain.

Example: a painful injury
2. Said of part of the body: affected by some injury, etc which causes pain.

Example: a painful finger
Thesaurus: aching, throbbing, sore, tender, raw, inflamed, uncomfortable.
3. Causing distress.

Example: a painful duty
Thesaurus: disturbing, worrying, depressing, saddening, troublesome, grievous, disagreeable, distasteful, harrowing, laborious, trying.
4. Laborious and slow.

Example: painful progress