† tormentousadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Of tormenting nature; torturing.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective]
anguishous?c1225
wounding?c1225
asperc1374
derflya1400
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
fretting1413
piercingc1450
anguish1477
piquant1521
anguishing?1566
plaguing1566
asperous?1567
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
wringing1576
cutting1582
tormentous1583
tormentful1596
tormentuous1597
racking1598
torturous1600
lacerating1609
torturing1611
tearinga1616
heart-aching1620
breast-rending1625
crucifying1648
tormentative1654
martyring?a1656
tormentive1655
discruciating1658
cruciatory1660
anguishful1685
brain-racking1708
probing1749
agonized1793
anguished1803
harrowing1810
vulnerary1821
grinding1869
torturesome1889
wrenching1889
tortuous1922
society > authority > punishment > torture > [adjective] > that tortures
tormenting1575
tormentous1583
torturous1600
torturing1611
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. 47 His body being trysed vp into the ayre with a tormentous [printed tormentrous] Engine, they bynd to his feete instruments of Yron.
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 195 Astylus was not to learn that Love was a tormentous fire.
Derivatives
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective]
anguishous?c1225
wounding?c1225
asperc1374
derflya1400
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
fretting1413
piercingc1450
anguish1477
piquant1521
anguishing?1566
plaguing1566
asperous?1567
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
wringing1576
cutting1582
tormentous1583
tormentful1596
tormentuous1597
racking1598
torturous1600
lacerating1609
torturing1611
tearinga1616
heart-aching1620
breast-rending1625
crucifying1648
tormentative1654
martyring?a1656
tormentive1655
discruciating1658
cruciatory1660
anguishful1685
brain-racking1708
probing1749
agonized1793
anguished1803
harrowing1810
vulnerary1821
grinding1869
torturesome1889
wrenching1889
tortuous1922
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment
sharpc1000
grievousc1290
smartc1300
fellc1330
unsufferablea1340
keena1375
poignantc1390
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
stoutc1425
unbearablec1449
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
cruciable1578
raging1590
tormentuous1597
pungent1598
racking1598
acute1615
wrenching1618
excruciating1664
grinding1681
excruciate1773
discruciating1788
unendurable1801
of bare sufferance1823
perialgic1893
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 44 So ys yt a moste bitter and tormentuouse estate to such as love not to gethers.
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Tormentuosus, having or full of racking pains: tormentuous.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adverb] > anguish or torment
sorelyc888
sorec1290
tormentingly1575
sensibly1613
torturingly?a1625
tormentously1669
agonizingly1775
excruciatingly1808
tormentedly1891
1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 87 Why so tormentously [do they] rend their weary throats?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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