单词 | painfully |
释义 | painfullyadv. 1. a. In a way that causes or is accompanied by mental or physical pain; distressingly. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [adverb] bitterlyc1000 sorec1290 uneasilyc1290 pinouslyc1429 painfullyc1440 dolorouslya1500 asperously1547 sensibly1613 afflictively1629 the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [adverb] soreOE sorrily?c1225 drearilya1400 sweamfullyc1420 painfullyc1440 sorelyc1450 badly1580 afflictively1629 afflictingly1657 plangently1900 c1440 Privity of Passion (Thornton) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 207 (MED) What sorowe trowes thow vmlappede the soule of his..modyre, when cho sawe hir dere sone so paynefully fayle and dolefullye dye? c1450 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 142 (MED) His two sonnes..weren takyn..and paynfully don to the deth. 1559 D. Lindsay Dreme in Wks. (1931) I. 12 Dukis, merquessis..wer punyst panefullie. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 857 Men were so sore handled, and so painefully pangued, that [etc.]. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 10 Being painfully and pipeing hot, arriv'd at this exalted mansion. 1664 W. Killigrew Selindra iii. 55 My tongue moves heavily and painfully, loss of blood makes me faint. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. viii. 279 Could Racks or Wheels kill me so painfully ? View more context for this quotation 1795 T. Jefferson Let. 27 Apr. in Writings (1984) 1026 In this I painfully feel the loss of Monroe. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice II. xi. 134 The tumult of her mind was now painfully great. View more context for this quotation 1836 L. H. Sigourney Sketches 178 The unfeeling exclamation with which her husband abandoned him to his fate, fell painfully upon her heart. 1934 L. Charteris Boodle vi. 132 When he woke up, his first impulse was to clasp his hands to his painfully singing head. 1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) iii. 112 I had twisted my ankle painfully in an irrigation stream and was beginning to feel the cold. b. To an uncomfortable or troubling degree. Also in weakened sense: acutely, exceedingly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > excessively cruellyc1385 overa1400 fullc1400 parlouslyc1425 mortalc1440 perilousc1440 spitefulc1450 devilish1560 pestilently1567 spitefully1567 cruel1573 parlous1575 deadly1589 intolerable?1593 fellc1600 perditlya1632 excessively1634 devilishly1635 desperate1636 woundya1639 woundlya1644 desperately1653 wicked1663 killing1672 woundily1706 wounded1753 mortally1759 dreadful1762 intolerably1768 perishing1776 tremendously1776 terrifically1777 diabolically1792 woundedly1794 thundering1809 all-firedly1833 preponderously1835 painfully1839 deadlilya1843 severely1854 furiously1856 diabolish1858 fiendish1861 demonish1867 sinfully1869 fiendishly1879 thunderingly1885 only too1889 nightmarishly1891 God almighty1906 Christ almighty1945 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xviii. 163 Your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects. 1853 D. M. Mulock Agatha's Husband II. 38 She thought the rule absolute was painfully prevalent in the Harper family. 1881 H. James Washington Square ii. 19 She was irresponsive because she was shy..painfully shy. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables i. 5 The kitchen..would have been cheerful if it had not been so painfully clean as to give it something of the appearance of an unused parlour. 1961 Flying (N.Y.) Feb. 33/1 At this point it should be painfully obvious that cities, being ‘soft’, and the people within them are ideally suited to destruction by nuclear weapons. 2002 Private Eye 20 Sept. 24/1 Stage-fright happens when an actor, often at the peak of their success, becomes painfully aware of the audience. 2. In a way that gives trouble; with difficulty or great effort.Frequently difficult to distinguish from sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adverb] evil1377 painfully1539 difficultly1542 difficillyc1545 evillya1616 stickily1909 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 85 Yf it were easily expulsed, or peynfully. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 30 Painefully, hardely. Laboriosè. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 122 Should we behold, what painfully we got, Possest by those that seeke to cut our threat. 1721 T. D'Urfey Grecian Heroine iv. i. 128 The Soul..Thro' numerous Dangers makes its vent'rous Road; And painfully o'er Rocks and Sands do's ride. 1797 R. Southey Poems 145 Weary way-wanderer languid and sick at heart, Travelling painfully over the rugged road. 1840 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. VIII. lxi. 202 Macdonald was thus painfully maintaining his ground in upper Catalonia. 1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds ii. ii. 203 The strange creatures that were crawling slowly and painfully across the heaped mould. 1948 E. Waugh Loved One i. 6 After many years of painfully attempting to look youthful, he now aspired to the honours of age. 1991 Dateline Mag. Feb. 12/1 The train crawls painfully along. 3. Painstakingly; diligently, assiduously. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adverb] > with care and effort peniblya1400 painfully1547 elaborately1724 painstakingly1854 1547 H. Owen in Bull. Inst. Hist. Res. (1933) 11 xxxi. 33 He seruyd [the] sayd Edward Halle his late maister honestly and trulye by the space of vij yeares and moost paynfully and dyligently in the tyme of the last Sycknes of the sayd Edward. 1584–5 in L. M. Clopper Rec. Early Eng. Drama: Chester (1979) 143 Diligently and paynfully to shew your selues herein. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 316 Painefully and expensfully studious of the common good. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd iii. 38 It is necessary, that a good Proctour should follow his Clyents cause diligently and painfully. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 200 He..painfully collected the works of Geffrey Chawcer. 1760 C. Lennox tr. F. de S. de la Mothe-Fénelon Treat. Educ. Daughters ii, in Lady's Museum No. 5. 372 A language which it [sc. a child] will shortly speak with more accuracy than scholars can the dead languages they have so painfully studied in riper years. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. ii. iv. 211 That no private man could hope to arrive at a sounder understanding..than had been painfully attained by so many holy bishops. 2000 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 29 Mar. 12 Their stock of books, slowly and painfully acquired over the years, will be sold off or put into store. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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