torturous

1 hard to accept or bear especially emotionally relatives had to make the torturous decision to disconnect the patient's life-support system Synonyms of torturous afflicting, agonizing, cruel, excruciating, galling, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, bitterWords Related to torturous insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable; appalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretched; acute, extreme, intense, piercingNear Antonyms of torturous bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerable; livable (also liveable), sufferable, survivable; acceptable, allowable, reasonableAntonyms of torturous gratifying, pleasing, sweet

2 intensely or unbearably painful the post-infection treatment for rabies was as notoriously torturous as the disease itself Synonyms of torturous agonizing, harrowing, racking, raging, tormenting, torturing, excruciating, wrenchingWords Related to torturous acute, exquisite, extreme, fierce, intense, vehement, violent; biting, cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp, shooting, smarting, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tingling