excruciating

Thân thiện

The patient described the headache as excruciating.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. extremely painful

Từ đồng nghĩa

• agonizing
• agonising
• harrowing
• torturing
• torturous
• torturesome