Synonym: painfully. Similar words: sore, rely, barely, eyesore, rely on, purely, merely, or else. Meaning: ['sɑrəlɪ /'sɒr-] 
adv. 1. to a great degree 2. in or as if in pain.
adv. 1. to a great degree 2. in or as if in pain. 91 It was a sorely needed lesson because I had been an inveterate arguer.
92 Being out of health, she was sorely afflicted with the blue devils.
93 Compare in the female that chronic pudenda is in 229 years old normally sorely common.
94 It was a sorely needed lesson because I had an inveterate arguer.
95 Most dramatically, the position of the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , has been sorely undermined.