harrowing Synonyms

agonizing torturous agonising excruciating soul-crushing severe sad racking piercing painful monstrous miserable horrifying horrible horrendous hideous shocking terrible anguishing heart-rending unbearable nightmarish torturesome wretched woeful upsetting traumatic tragic tormenting terrifying heartrending heartbreaking dire crushing cruel catastrophic cataclysmic cataclysmal calamitous bitter awful atrocious appalling alarming direful disquieting distress grisly grievous gruesome