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tormenting

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of tormenting

1 hard to accept or bear especially emotionally

It was a tormenting moment as they helplessly watched the other team score in the final seconds of the game.

Synonyms of tormenting

afflicting, agonizing, bitter, cruel, excruciating, galling, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, torturous

Words Related to tormenting

insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable

appalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretched

acute, extreme, intense, piercing

Near Antonyms of tormenting

bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerable

livable (also liveable), sufferable, survivable

acceptable, allowable, reasonable

Antonyms of tormenting

gratifying, pleasing, sweet

2 intensely or unbearably painful

a tormenting injury

Synonyms of tormenting

agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, racking, raging, torturing, torturous, wrenching

Words Related to tormenting

acute, exquisite, extreme, fierce, intense, vehement, violent

biting, cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp, shooting, smarting, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tingling

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