Synonyms for agonizing
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Painful
painful, excruciating, torturous, harrowing, tormenting, torturing, torturesome
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing physical or mental agony.
It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.
Related words
- Other spellings
- agonising UK
Example sentences
- painful She is still in the painful process of growing up.
- harrowing It was the most harrowing experience of my life.
- excruciating You discovered my biggest weakness: excruciating pain.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| agonizing | rising | |
| painful | rising | |
| harrowing | rising | |
| excruciating | rising | |
| torturous | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- painful2, hurtful2
- 9 letters
- torturing3, harrowing3, torturous3
- 10 letters
- tormenting3
- 11 letters
- torturesome
- 12 letters
- excruciating5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (painful2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- agonisant
- Italiano
- agonizzante