agonising
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Extremely painful: Causing intense physical or mental suffering; characterized by severe distress or torment.
Usage
- Used to describe experiences, processes, or situations that involve severe pain, distress, or difficulty.
- Often describes prolonged suffering or a situation that is very hard to endure.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The patient endured an agonising wait for the test results.
- She made the agonising decision to leave her hometown.
- Recovery from the injury was a slow and agonising process.
Advanced Usage
- "agonising over a decision": To spend a great deal of time worrying and suffering mentally while trying to make a difficult choice.
- He was agonising over whether to accept the job offer in another country.
- "agonising detail": Describing something with extreme, often painful, thoroughness or precision.
- The report described the accident in agonising detail.
Variants and Related Words
- Agonize (verb): To suffer extreme physical or mental pain; to worry or struggle deeply.
- She agonized for weeks before finally confronting him.
- Agonized (adjective): Showing or expressing great pain or distress.
- He let out an agonized cry.
- Agony (noun): Extreme physical or mental suffering.
- The agony of defeat was clear on the athlete's face.
Synonyms
- Excruciating: Intensely painful.
- Tormenting: Causing severe physical or mental suffering.
- Torturous: Involving torture or great suffering.
- Harrowing: Acutely distressing or painful.
Antonyms
- Painless: Causing no physical pain or difficulty.
- Pleasant: Giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment.
- Comforting: Serving to alleviate a person's feelings of grief or distress.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- An agonising reappraisal: A long and difficult period of reconsidering a situation, often leading to a significant change.
- The company's failure forced an agonising reappraisal of its business strategy.
Adjective
- extremely painful