Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; too much |
| Synonyms: | a bit much, enough, heavy-handed, inadmissible, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, last straw, oppressive, unacceptable, unendurable, unsurpassable |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, bearable, good, tolerable |
| Main Entry: | excruciating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | torturous, painful |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, burning, chastening, consuming, exquisite, extreme, grueling, harrowing, insufferable, intense, piercing, punishing, racking, rending, searing, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing, tearing, tormenting, torturesome, torturing, unbearable, unendurable, violent |
| Antonyms: | bearable, endurable, helpful, pleasant, pleasing, soothing |
| Main Entry: | grievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, painful; serious |
| Synonyms: | afflicting, agonizing, appalling, atrocious, calamitous, damaging, deplorable, dire, dismal, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, egregious, flagrant, glaring, grave, harmful, heart-rending, heavy*, heinous, hurtful, injurious, intolerable, lamentable, monstrous, mournful, offensive, onerous, oppressive, outrageous, pathetic, pitiful, sad, shameful, sharp, shocking, sorrowful, taxing, tough, tragic, troublesome, unbearable, upsetting, villainous, weighty, wounding |
| Antonyms: | good, harmless, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insufferable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, intolerable |
| Synonyms: | detestable, distressing, dreadful, impossible, insupportable, outrageous, painful, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unspeakable |
| Antonyms: | delightful, endurable, happy, pleasant, sufferable, tolerable |
| Main Entry: | intolerable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unacceptable; beyond bearing |
| Synonyms: | a bit much, enough already, excruciating, extreme, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, last straw, offensive, painful, unbearable, undesirable, unendurable |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, bearable, tolerable |
| Main Entry: | outrageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
| Synonyms: | abominable, atrocious, barbaric, beastly, brazen, contemptible, contumelious, corrupt, criminal, debasing, debauching, degenerate, depraving, disgraceful, disgracing, egregious, flagitious, flagrant, gross, heinous, horrendous, horrible, ignoble, infamous, inhuman, iniquitous, malevolent, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, odious, opprobrious, scandalous, scurrilous, shameless, shaming, shocking, sinful, unbearable, ungodly, unspeakable, villainous, violent, wanton, wicked |
| Antonyms: | delightful, good, magnificent, pleasing, wonderful |
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