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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult and painful, suffering |
| Synonyms: | disturbing, excruciating, extreme, fierce, harrowing, intense, racking, struggling, tearing, tormenting, tortuous, torturing, vehement, violent |
| Main Entry: | harrowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, frightening |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, alarming, chilling, distressing, disturbing, excruciating, heart-rending, heartbreaking, nerve-racking, painful, racking, soaring, tearing, terrifying, tormenting, torturing, torturous, traumatic |
| Antonyms: | calming, pleasant, pleasing, unfrightening |
| 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: | anguishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tormenting |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, painful, suffering, torturing, torturous |
| 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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