excruciating
Definition
- Adjective:
- Extremely painful: Causing intense physical pain or suffering.
- Very severe or intense: Used to describe something that is extremely unpleasant, distressing, or severe, often in a metaphorical sense.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The patient experienced excruciating pain after the surgery.
- She had an excruciating headache that lasted all day.
- The wait for the test results was excruciating.
- He felt an excruciating sense of guilt over his mistake.
Advanced Usage
- "Excruciating detail": Used to describe an excessive, meticulous, or painfully thorough level of detail.
- The report described the accident in excruciating detail.
- "Excruciating slowness": Used to emphasize an unbearably slow pace.
- The progress of the project was marked by an excruciating slowness.
Variants and Related Words
- Excruciatingly (adverb): In an extremely painful or intense manner.
- The process was excruciatingly slow.
- Excruciate (verb, archaic): To inflict severe pain on; to torture.
- (This form is rarely used in modern English.)
Synonyms
- Agonizing: Involving intense pain or suffering.
- Tormenting: Causing severe physical or mental suffering.
- Unbearable: So intense it cannot be endured.
- Severe: Very great; intense.
Antonyms
- Painless: Causing no physical pain.
- Mild: Not severe, serious, or harsh.
- Comfortable: Providing physical ease and relaxation.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Excruciating pain: The standard collocation for intense physical suffering.
- The burn caused excruciating pain.
- An excruciating experience: A situation that is mentally or emotionally very difficult to endure.
- Listening to the false accusations was an excruciating experience.
Adjective
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extremely painful
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