All excruciating synonyms

adjective excruciating

• agonising — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
• agonizing — Something that is agonizing causes you to feel great physical or mental pain.
• unbearable — not bearable; unendurable; intolerable.
• severe — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
• painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
• piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
• terrible — distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
• awful — If you say that someone or something is awful, you dislike that person or thing or you think that they are not very good.
• sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
• insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
• racking — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
• tormenting — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• torturous — pertaining to, involving, or causing torture or suffering.
• acute — An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
• grueling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
• harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
• intense — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
• searing — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
• burning — You use burning to describe something that is extremely hot.
• chastening — A chastening experience makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
• consuming — A consuming passion or interest is more important to you than anything else.
• punishing — causing or characterized by harsh or injurious treatment; severe; brutal: The storm was accompanied by punishing winds.
• rending — to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces.
• shooting — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
• stabbing — penetrating; piercing: a stabbing pain.
• tearing — violent or hasty: with tearing speed.
• torturing — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
• self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
• unendurable — capable of being endured; bearable; tolerable.
• violent — acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
• embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
• tedious — event: dull
• cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
• irritating — causing irritation; annoying; provoking: irritating questions.
• toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
• infuriating — Archaic. infuriated.
• stultifying — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.