Painfully
Painfully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Unsuccessfully and painfully are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unsuccessfully" instead an adverb "Painfully".
Unsuccessfully
Unsuccessfully adverb - Without success.
Painfully and unsuccessfully are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Painfully" instead an adverb "Unsuccessfully".
Nearby Word: unsuccessful
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- very and painfully
- very and unsuccessfully
- greatly and painfully
- greatly and unsuccessfully
- hard and painfully
- hard and unsuccessfully
- badly and painfully
- badly and unsuccessfully
- cruelly and painfully
- cruelly and unsuccessfully
- severely and painfully
- severely and unsuccessfully
- intensely and painfully
- intensely and unsuccessfully
Both words in one sentence
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Liberty is presented as this in the early seasons when she falls for Sean and starts trying (painfully unsuccessfully) to seem like a "bad girl" in order to impress him.
Source: Series / Degrassi
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