Cheerfully and Painfully

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Cheerfully

Cheerfully adverb - In a cheerful or happy manner.
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Antonyms for Cheerfully
Painfully is an antonym for cheerfully.
Nearby Words: cheer, cheerful, cheerless, cheery, cheering

Painfully

Painfully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: painfully she recounted the years of physical abuse she had received at his hands
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Cheerfully is an antonym for painfully.
Nearby Words: pain, painful, pained
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  • Innocent Inaccurate She is unable to realise that her husband is cheating on her, that both he and her family are openly abusive towards her and that she appears to have a genuine disorder for which she could get help; all of which are painfully apparent to the reader but go cheerfully over her head in the narrative.
    Source: Innocent Inaccurate
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