Synonyms for excruciating
ɪkˈskru ʃiˌeɪ tɪŋex·cru·ci·at·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesomeadjective

   extremely painful

   Synonyms:
   harrowing, torturing, agonising, torturesome, torturous, agonizing

   Antonyms:
   painless

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. excruciatingadjective

   Synonyms:
   torturing, tormenting, very painful

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "excruciating":

   atrocious, awful

How to pronounce excruciating?

How to say excruciating in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use excruciating in a sentence?

1. Steven McCraw:

   When we get the ability to come talk to you, I'll go line by line in terms of what trooper did what... what DPS officer. We'll be entirely transparent, the public will have it -- they'll have excruciating details in terms of what we did, when we did it and those gaps.

2. Diane Foley:

   There really wasn't anyone in the government who was accountable. They may have cared in many ways, but Jim was at the bottom of a very long list of other tasks for most of the people we met, it really was a very isolating, upsetting, excruciating ordeal.

3. Coast Guard:

   The decision to suspend was excruciating and gut-wrenching.

4. Amanda Hayhurst:

   The first few weeks were really excruciating.

5. Les Baugh:

   I went into the surgery knowing that he was going to move nerves in my chest. I remember when I first [came] out from under it, the pain, I’d never had, I don’t even remember the original being that much excruciating pain but I imagine probably that my mind blocked that anyway.