- torturesome
- tor·ture·some
English syllables. 2014.
torturesome
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torturesome — adjective extremely painful • Syn: ↑agonizing, ↑agonising, ↑excruciating, ↑harrowing, ↑torturing, ↑torturous • Similar to: ↑painful • … Useful english dictionary
agonizing — adj. causing agony. Opposite to {painless}. Syn: excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
torture — torturable, adj. torturedly, adv. torturer, n. torturesome, adj. torturingly, adv. /tawr cheuhr/, n., v., tortured, torturing. n. 1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or… … Universalium
racking — adj torturous, torturesome, excruciating, agonizing, scathing; severe, sharp, acute, piercing, poignant; insufferable, unbearable, unendurable, extreme, terrific; painful, abusive, harmful, hurtful, injurious; backbreaking, killing, murderous,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
excruciating — [adj] torturous, painful acute, agonizing, burning, chastening, consuming, exquisite, extreme, grueling, harrowing, insufferable, intense, piercing, punishing, racking, rending, searing, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing, tearing, tormenting,… … New thesaurus
agonising — adjective extremely painful • Syn: ↑agonizing, ↑excruciating, ↑harrowing, ↑torturing, ↑torturous, ↑torturesome • Similar to: ↑painful … Useful english dictionary
agonizing — adjective extremely painful • Syn: ↑agonising, ↑excruciating, ↑harrowing, ↑torturing, ↑torturous, ↑torturesome • Similar to: ↑painful … Useful english dictionary
excruciating — adjective extremely painful (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑agonizing, ↑agonising, ↑harrowing, ↑torturing, ↑torturous, ↑torturesome • Similar to: ↑painful … Useful english dictionary
harrowing — adjective extremely painful • Syn: ↑agonizing, ↑agonising, ↑excruciating, ↑torturing, ↑torturous, ↑torturesome • Similar to: ↑painful … Useful english dictionary
torturing — I noun the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason it required unnatural… … Useful english dictionary
