painfully

[US]/'peinfəli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. auf eine Weise, die Unbehagen oder Leiden verursacht; auf eine Art und Weise, die schwierig oder herausfordernd ist; extrem; körperlichen oder emotionalen Schmerz verursachend.

Phrases & Collocations

painfully shy

peinlich berührlich

painfully obvious

offensichtlich unangenehm

Example Sentences

she was painfully thin.

Sie war auf erschreckende Weise dünn.

progress was painfully slow.

Der Fortschritt war qualvoll langsam.

The old horse was painfully thin.

Das alte Pferd war auf erschreckende Weise dünn.

You are painfully slow with your figures.

Du bist qualvoll langsam, wenn es um deine Zahlen geht.

an alarmingly forward yet painfully vulnerable child.

ein alarmierend vorwärtsgewandtes und qualvoll verletzliches Kind.

Filming was painfully slow.

Das Drehen war qualvoll langsam.

she knocked her knee painfully on the table.

Sie stieß sich qualvoll das Knie an den Tisch.

The shoe pressed painfully against her big toe.

Der Schuh drückte qualvoll gegen ihren großen Zeh.

the case of murder in which she had found herself so painfully entangled.

Der Fall des Mordes, in den sie sich so qualvoll verwickelt hatte.

in flagrant disregard of the law. What isglaring is blatantly and painfully manifest:

in offensichtlicher Missachtung des Gesetzes. Was hervorsticht, ist offensichtlich und schmerzhaft deutlich:

A television programme consisting largely of all but unwatchable monologues lingered painfully on the airwaves and then died, unlamented.

Ein Fernsehprogramm, das größtenteils aus kaum sehenswerten Monologen bestand, verweilte schmerzhaft auf den Wellen und starb dann unbedacht.

Real-world Examples

'Just stand back, ' he growled, as he lifted himself painfully to his feet.

Source: Jane Eyre (Abridged Version)

Harry looked at her and the new feeling of pity intensified rather painfully.

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

As a result, he says, companies use shrinkflation to raise prices " less painfully" .

Source: BBC Reading Selection

The scar on his forehead had seared again, more painfully than it had in months.

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Contact with members of he lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy.

Source: Brave New World

The scar on his forehead had seared again, more painfully than it had in weeks.

Source: 5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I found the act of articulating those instinctive truths painfully difficult.

Source: Stephen King on Writing

It is now being painfully reminded of it.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

I am so painfully attracted to her soul.

Source: The private playlist of a celebrity.

We learn painfully. We fall and break limbs.

Source: Tales of Imagination and Creativity

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