Thesaurus
torturous
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of TORTUROUS
1
hard to accept or bear especially emotionally <relatives had to make the torturous decision to disconnect the patient's life-support system>
Synonyms afflicting, agonizing, cruel, excruciating, galling, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturous
Related Words insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable; appalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretched; acute, extreme, intense, piercing
Near Antonyms bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerable; livable (also liveable), sufferable, survivable; acceptable, allowable, reasonable
2
intensely or unbearably painful <the post-infection treatment for rabies was as notoriously torturous as the disease itself>
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