Excruciating

Adjective

 * 1) Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
 * the nation's most excruciating dilemma -- W. H. Ferry
 * 1) Exceedingly intense; extreme

Adverbs for Excruciating
terribly; unbearably; visibly; obviously; piteously; unnecessarily; inexpressibly; dreadfully; appallingly; insufferably; insupportably.

Synonyms for Excruciating
agonizing, racking, overwhelming, grueling, rending, tormenting, severe, intense, painful, extreme, acute.

Antonyms for Excruciating
mild, soothing, comforting, pleasing.

Thesaurus
acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressful, distressing, exquisite, extreme, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, hurtful, hurting, insufferable, intense, keen, painful, paroxysmal, piercing, poignant, pungent, racking, rending, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tormenting, torturing, torturous, unbearable, unendurable, vivid

Etymology
Present participle of excruciate:, from excruciatus:, past participle of excrucio:, from ex-: + crucio: "I torment".

Translations

 * Armenian: ծանր
 * Finnish: kiduttava, sietämätön
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Italian: atroce, straziante, lancinante, struggente, cruciale


 * Manx: ard-phianjagh
 * Polish: rozdzierający
 * Russian: мучительный


 * Finnish:

Related terms

 * cruciate
 * excruciate
 * excruciatingly