excruciating

Definition

  • adjective: very painful
  • adjective: causing great pain or anguish
  • synonyms: acute, afflictive, agonizing

Examples

  • They described their vacation in 'excruciating' detail.

  • an 'excruciating' moment of embarrassment

  • an 'excruciatingly' painful condition

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Wouldn't have missed it, brother. How was the royalty? I just wanted him to tell me a couple more times how close the race was. Just brutal, brutally close. Brutally excruciating. Jesus. The guy is the prince of a country the size of Nantucket. Relax, it's fine. ' Boys. Divya. ' Dad. (..)
    2010 The Social Network