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
Pessimistically and painfully are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pessimistically" instead an adverb "Painfully".
Pessimistically
Pessimistically adverb - With pessimism; in a pessimistic manner.
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Synonyms for Pessimistically
Painfully and pessimistically are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Painfully" instead an adverb "Pessimistically".
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Related pairs
- hard and painfully
- hard and pessimistically
- hardly and painfully
- hardly and pessimistically
- agonizingly and painfully
- agonizingly and pessimistically
- bitterly and painfully
- bitterly and pessimistically
- ruefully and painfully
- ruefully and pessimistically
- desperately and painfully
- desperately and pessimistically
- sadly and painfully
- sadly and pessimistically
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