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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally agonizing |
| Synonyms: | aching, afflictive, agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, extremely bad, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, saddening, sensitive, severe, sharp, smarting, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious |
| Antonyms: | delightful, easy, painless, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, intense |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, biting, cutting, distinct, distressing, drilling, excruciating, fierce, keen, knifelike, painful, paralyzing, penetrating, piercing, shooting, smart, sore, stabbing, stinging, violent |
| Antonyms: | calm, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | uncomfortable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful, rough |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, agonizing, annoying, awkward, bitter, cramped, difficult, disagreeable, distressing, dolorous, excruciating, galling, grievous, hard, harsh, ill-fitting, incommodious, irritating, thorny, torturing, troublesome, vexatious, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, easy, painless |
| Main Entry: | violent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, extreme |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, biting, blustery, coercive, concentrated, devastating, excruciating, exquisite, forceful, forcible, gale force, great, harsh, immoderate, inordinate, intense, mighty, outrageous, painful, potent, powerful, raging, rough, ruinous, sharp, strong, tempestuous, terrible, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | afflictive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | aching, achy, agonizing, distressing, excruciating, hurtful, sore, stinging, troublesome |
| Main Entry: | anguishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tormenting |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, painful, suffering, torturing, torturous |
| Main Entry: | nagging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | aching, achy, afflictive, agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, extremely bad, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, saddening, sensitive, severe, sharp, smarting, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious |
| Main Entry: | smarting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | aching, achy, afflictive, agonizing, arduous, awful*, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, extremely bad, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, irritated, laborious, nagging, piercing, raw, saddening, sensitive, severe, sharp, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tormenting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very painful |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, anguishing, distressing, disturbing, excruciating, extreme, fierce, harrowing, intense, racking, struggling, suffering, tearing, tortuous, torturing, torturous, vehement, violent |
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