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
Regretfully and painfully are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Regretfully" instead an adverb "Painfully".
Regretfully
Regretfully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: I must regretfully inform you that you are not among those who have been accepted for our internship program
Painfully and regretfully are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Painfully" instead an adverb "Regretfully".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and painfully
- hard and regretfully
- hardly and painfully
- hardly and regretfully
- harshly and painfully
- harshly and regretfully
- cruelly and painfully
- cruelly and regretfully
- severely and painfully
- severely and regretfully
- agonizingly and painfully
- agonizingly and regretfully
- bitterly and painfully
- bitterly and regretfully
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