torturous

Speech parts

1. torturous - Adjective

2. torturous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Involving, or pertaining to, torture.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

harrowing excruciating agonizing agonising torturesome complex involved frightful hard severe extreme bad intense complicated harsh
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Antonyms

easy bright acceptable beneficial comfortable blessed
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Examples

By contrast, torturous executions were typically public, and woodcuts of English prisoners being hanged, drawn and quartered show large crowds of spectators, as do paintings of Spanish auto-da-fé executions, in which heretics were burned at the stake. Source: Internet

Because of its semi-autobiographical nature, some of A Scanner Darkly was torturous to write. Source: Internet

He has a personal vendetta against the Chief, Dr. Niles Caulder, and orchestrates the entire events of the first season as an act of torturous revenge. Source: Internet

The hydrotherapy room is covered in green tiles and, in episode 4, "Angel Of Mercy: Part Two", Mildred—along with Dr. Richard Hanover (Jon Jon Briones)—uses the torturous form of psychiatric care to torture a hired assassin. Source: Internet

But what is tragic is that at no time during this long waiting, brought about by this torturous calculation, is the human cost inside the nation ever factored in; short of a full assurance, they are willing to let the masses suffer in the meantime. Source: Internet

For brown, black, and yellow Americans, that’s hardly news, so what made “The Story of O.J.” so powerfully resonant in this racially torturous year? Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

torturess torturing. torturingly torturously toruffle torula