Synonyms for excruciating

Most common

painful · agonizing · torturous · harrowing · intense · searing

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

Antonyms

painless, bearable, tolerable

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Definitions

1. adj. 1

   Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing

2. adj. 2

   Exceedingly intense; extreme

Related words

Word family

excruciatingly excruciate

Example sentences

• painful She is still in the painful process of growing up.
• harrowing It was the most harrowing experience of my life.
• agonizing We found her still alive, she was agonizing.
• intense She was as intense in her hatreds as in her loves.
• searing The critic wrote a searing review of the book.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

keen¹

5 letters

sharp¹

6 letters

minute², biting²

7 letters

intense², painful², searing², pungent²

8 letters

poignant², painable

9 letters

torturing³, harrowing³, agonizing⁴, torturous³, agonising

10 letters

tormenting³

11 letters

torturesome

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (minute² = 2 syllables).

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