tormentous

comparative more tormentous · superlative most tormentous

1. datedrareInvolving or causing torment; having the nature of torture.

   [I]ts greed gave us years tormentous and horrible, like those of Ferdinand VII.

   1870, The Annual Register, Volume 111, page 264

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   Before thee stalks inexorable Fate, And grasps impailing nails and wedges dread, The hook tormentous and the melted lead.

   1756, Philip Francis (translator), Horace (author), "Ode 35: To Fortune" in A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace, p. 129 (Google preview)

   Few adults could have survived the tormentous, agonizing heartbreak Jimmy endured.

   1960 May, "Loneliest Boy on Capitol Hill", Ebony, vol. 15, no. 7, p. 58 (Google preview)

   In Nigeria in particular and Africa generally, there is no winter, no heat-wave, no iceberg, no volcanoes, no hail storms, no devastating wild fires, no tormentous tornadoes or thunderstorms, no deadly floods.

   2006, Jubil Olebode Aka, Blacks Greatest Homeland: Nigeria Is Born Again, →ISBN, page 12

   Synonyms: tormenting, torturous