agonizing

Causing physical or mental agony.

Adjective

  1. Causing physical or mental agony.
    • It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

Forms

more agonizing most agonizing agonising

Synonyms

agonizing ailsome excruciating groanful hellish hurtful painable painful terrible tormenting tormentous torturous unpleasant wrenchful

Antonyms

pleasant pleasing

Related

agonize agony agonized torture

Derived

agonizingly unagonizing

Noun

  1. The act of one who agonizes.
    • I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew. - 1918, W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago:

Forms

agonizings agonising

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of agonize

Forms

agonising