All harrowing synonyms
har·row·ing
H h adj harrowing
- distressing — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- torturous — pertaining to, involving, or causing torture or suffering.
- heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- terrifying — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- agonizing — Something that is agonizing causes you to feel great physical or mental pain.
- chilling — If you describe something as chilling, you mean it is frightening.
- traumatic — of, relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound.
- alarming — Something that is alarming makes you feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- soaring — an act or instance of soaring.
- tormenting — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- torturing — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- racking — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
- tearing — violent or hasty: with tearing speed.
- nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
adjective harrowing
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- vexing — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- worrying — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- stressful — full of stress or tension: the stressful days before a war.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- agonising — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- excruciating — Intensely painful.