pain"ful*ly

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

2.Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. [1913 Webster]

3.Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]

A very painful person, and a great clerk.— Jer. Taylor.[1913 Webster]

Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. [1913 Webster] -- Pain"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]