Synonyms for harrowing
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Painful
painful, excruciating, torturous, agonizing, agonising UK, torturing, torturesome
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing pain or distress; harrying.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- tillage
Example sentences
- painful She is still in the painful process of growing up.
- excruciating You discovered my biggest weakness: excruciating pain.
- agonizing We found her still alive, she was agonizing.
- horrible Something horrible happened about three hours ago.
- horrid The ivy is good because it obscures those horrid cables.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| harrowing | rising | |
| painful | rising | |
| excruciating | rising | |
| agonizing | rising | |
| torturous | rising | |
| horrible | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- horrid2
- 7 letters
- painful2
- 8 letters
- horrible3
- 9 letters
- torturing3, agonizing4, torturous3, agonising
- 11 letters
- torturesome
- 12 letters
- excruciating5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (horrid2 = 2 syllables).