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Adjective
▲
Causing great physical or mental pain
excruciating
harrowing
painful
grievous
tormenting
torturous
racking
bitter
acute
extreme
hellish
intense
severe
afflicting
cruel
distressing
galling
harsh
heartbreaking
heartrending
hurtful
insufferable
killing
piercing
raging
searing
torturing
unbearable
wrenching
exquisite
gut-wrenching
heart-rending
unendurable
disturbing
fierce
struggling
suffering
tearing
tortuous
vehement
violent
worrying
gale force
agonisingUK
rough
cyclonic
feverish
agitated
boisterous
hammer and tongs
knock-down-and-drag-out
frantic
blood-and-guts
unruly
ardent
squally
excited
bang-bang
heated
impassioned
mad
fervent
hysterical
frenetic
impetuous
inclement
disorderly
angry
aggressive
fervid
emotional
chaotic
choppy
blustering
delirious
rowdy
volatile
passional
blazing
perfervid
lawless
undisciplined
windy
torrid
lively
zealous
red-hot
rugged
spirited
crazy
hectic
berserk
demonstrative
gusty
maniacal
restless
howling
hyper
animated
nasty
noisy
fanatical
incandescent
hot-blooded
refractory
warm-blooded
assertive
irascible
earnest
foul
glowing
enthusiastic
overwrought
irrepressible
obstreperous
charged
manic
excitable
crazed
superheated
roaring
raving
dirty
uninhibited
distraught
rigorous
touchy
disturbed
rash
fractious
warm
abandoned
religious
disobedient
storm-tossed
disruptive
mighty
rebellious
headstrong
eager
intractable
thorough
stormful
deranged
recalcitrant
corybantic
full-blooded
wayward
filthy
insubordinate
unsettled
impulsive
sweeping
bumpy
insane
unbounded
total
beside oneself
worked up
active
unhindered
hotheaded
hyperactive
distracted
anarchic
thundery
muscular
relentless
wholehearted
fraught
complete
unconstrained
hot-headed
bleak
destructive
quick-tempered
gusting
panic-stricken
reckless
cataclysmic
cataclysmal
swivel-eyed
boiling
uproarious
wired
raucous
determined
exhaustive
temperamental
thoroughgoing
spasmodic
runaway
mutinous
threatening
unrestricted
hot-tempered
comprehensive
full-on
unhampered
unpleasant
contumacious
wanton
confused
heartfelt
incensed
all-out
extensive
blowy
fevered
willful
ugly
untoward
hearty
breezy
jerky
out-and-out
impatient
hasty
imprudent
compelling
unscrewed
troublemaking
incorrigible
in a tizzy
weirded out
wigged out
committed
lawbreaking
rumbustious
keyed up
roily
unstoppable
thunderous
out of hand
swirling
resolute
extravagant
self-indulgent
rapid
profligate
unstable
attention-seeking
vociferous
ungoverned
insistent
stiff
ruffled
disagreeable
absolute
heaving
clamorous
mercurial
exciting
stubborn
nervous
seething
rioting
in turmoil
wilful
unpredictable
fuming
very great
unbalanced
neurotic
quarrelsome
froward
incontrollable
opinionated
nuts
weird
zonkers
unzipped
unglued
beside yourself
spazzed out
hot under the collar
shook up
freaked out
flipped out
in a stew
hot and bothered
at wits' end
like one possessed
agitable
white-hot
mean
deep-seated
highly strung
torrential
high-strung
rampageous
cacophonous
jarring
abrupt
uncontainable
unquenchable
acrimonious
menacing
stridulent
buffeting
unreasonable
coarse
assiduous
typhonic
disordered
scorching
fast
unjustified
overactive
rainy
unwarranted
pronounced
roiled
sound
roller-coaster
sensitive
tremulous
irritable
irregular
wet
sizzling
wrathful
ebullient
towering
impressive
cogent
widespread
all-embracing
egregious
entire
baking
titanic
stark
licentious
stirred up
full-hearted
roasting
chippy
powerhouse
uncompromising
prodigal
weighty
on the rampage
snappy
overindulgent
sweltering
loud
lavish
revolutionary
utter
hard-hitting
incontinent
bad
persistent
over the top
unlimited
telling
panic-struck
termagant
rambunctious
high-pressure
melodramatic
panicky
untamed
significant
confusing
carried away
defiant
obstinate
unconcealed
obsessive
pervasive
full of upheavals
eloquent
scalding
galvanic
jouncy
ablaze
dissipative
debauched
radical
influential
tremendous
sincere
demented
stringent
robust
vital
troublesome
stroppy
uncalled for
uptight
driving
broiling
flighty
madcap
draconian
dominant
overzealous
unrestrainable
unhinged
testy
stirring
punchy
unforgiving
distrait
perverse
unyielding
restive
indocile
puissant
moving
berko
heedless
hysteric
full of ups and downs
herky-jerky
overexcited
fast and furious
drunken
impervious
ornery
forward
bawdy
inexorable
pulling no punches
far-reaching
quick
steamed up
in a state
deep-rooted
fired up
out of line
short-fused
wide-ranging
in a frenzy
easily provoked
on fire
on a short fuse
running amok
durable
industrial-strength
real
postal
madding
risky
hazardous
unrepressed
right
proper
heavyweight
long-lasting
diabolical
standup
bruising
blind
involuntary
bad-tempered
ill-tempered
blusterous
trigger-happy
criminal
grating
unmusical
discordant
hoarse
inharmonious
rasping
husky
dry
gruff
gay
crushing
indefensible
inexcusable
dire
reprehensible
unforgivable
belligerent
thuggish
pugnacious
storm-wracked
tireless
fast-flowing
rushing
scintillating
mettlesome
uncooperative
callous
hardened
ruffianly
rowdydowdy
two-fisted
irresistible
amorous
airy
contentious
self-willed
flapping
disgraceful
shameful
parlous
bloodthirsty
ill-disciplined
blunt
arduous
taxing
unconventional
squallish
abject
cordial
busy
critical
radge
avid
indignant
irate
ireful
troubled
considerable
effusive
cut-throat
wintryUS
cold
in-your-face
exhausting
brisk
extrovert
steadfast
allegiant
dedicated
virulent
insurmountable
romping
anarchical
rebel
incompliant
contrary
rollicking
recusant
balky
dithyrambic
demonic
naughty
burdensome
murderous
hardhanded
inhuman
maniac
chilly
freezing
deepest
incautious
irrational
steep
dogged
bold
tenacious
indefatigable
Herculean
stout
seditious
very angry
inspired
foaming
nutty
gung-ho
all out
broad
smart
deeply felt
snowy
drizzly
icy
damp
knock-down
primal
visceral
undisguised
tropical
parching
withering
rousing
thrilled
maddened
in a fit
driven to distraction
very upset
unnerved
possessed
out of one's wits
in a panic
short-tempered
gutsy
knockout
commanding
encyclopedicUS
wholesale
wide
exorbitant
limit
awkward
unremitting
pertinacious
overcome
messianic
drag-out
fitful
sporadic
shaking
perturbed
stern
roughhouse
mushy
overemotional
sentimental
romantic
touching
emotive
virile
hardy
unmixed
elemental
hefty
unconscionable
encyclopaedicUK
universal
rolly
overwhelmed
giddy
from the heart
starry-eyed
oversensitive
querulous
pettish
easily offended
hypersensitive
petulant
effective
short-fuse
red-blooded
lusty
full of confusion
full of conflict
full-scale
fulminant
bursting
consequential
fulminating
detonating
detonative
struck
overawed
affected
incredulous
stunned
adverse
delinquent
non-compliant
badly behaved
baking hot
blazing hot
blistery
weltering
out and out
valid
uncalled-for
dissolute
detailed
in-depth
concerted
stimulated
precipitate
headlong
inspiring
affecting
high-powered
hotblooded
expressive
thrilling
quickened
broken
furibund
phrenetic
bolshie
overextravagant
plethoric
baroque
fancy
unmerciful
overmuch
overdue
overweening
devilish
moiling
winteryUK
edgy
skittish
convincing
O.T.T.
dissipated
very hot
boiling hot
uneven
all-absorbing
demanding
all-inclusive
all-encompassing
painstaking
enterprising
motivating
impellent
urging
propulsive
ultra
advanced
iconoclastic
overpowered
obdurate
insuppressible
freaked
indomitable
insurgent
badly-behaved
undisciplinable
epidemic
dizzying
decadent
over-the-top
unmeasurable
too-too
jumpy
tense
choleric
dramatic
afire
rife
persuasive
like a furnace
greedy
over the odds
scrupulous
minute
meticulous
conscientious
methodical
shaken
infuriated
steamed-up
hottempered
lost it
pandemic
rank
moody
twitchy
brittle
top-to-bottom
root-and-branch
at the boiling point
too much
a bit much
like a loose cannon
untrammelledUK
prevalent
exuberant
flagrant
changing
broken up
wavy
shifting
ripply
full of waves
variable
devastated
plausible
armed
efficient
efficacious
aflame
kindled
ignited
skittery
fluttery
spooky
adrenalized
jittery
hyperexcitable
hyperkinetic
unceremonious
in a lather
teeming
copious
searching
elaborate
careful
sedulous
luxuriant
profuse
distressed
stressy
uneasy
conflagrant
ultrahot
lit
alight
enflamed
sultry
combusting
destroyed
not knowing what to do with oneself
unconfined
unexpected
spreading
fecund
flourishing
rambling
proliferating
predominant
multiplying
growing
conclusive
credible
unanswerable
compulsory
inflammable
peevish
alarmable
fidgety
intolerant
susceptible
accelerated
speeded-up
red
flushed
lighted
igneous
unimpeded
unsuppressed
all shook up
vocal
outspoken
easily upset
fiddle-footed
blowing hot and cold
easily agitated
easily frightened
short fused
unbiddable
brawling
crude
startling
unsubmissive
exceeding bounds
flaring
flickering
empyreal
febrile
militant
strident
forthright
spreading like wildfire
untrammeledUS
running wild
unanticipated
last-minute
worried
anxious
wound up
het up
piping hot
in flames
full-throated
lacking self-control
having kittens
in a flap
in a tizz
soaking
pouring
lashing
drenching
brusque
swift
shocking
unforeseen
immediate
rude
unpredicted
at the end of your tether
at your wits' end
in a cold sweat
in a flat spin
not controlled
insurrectionary
turbid
uncontained
helter-skelter
disorganisedUK
hedonistic
disorganizedUS
hopped up
on the make
direct
certain
decided
definite
unequivocal
firm
categorical
explicit
positive
clear
unmistakable
unambiguous
unconditional
distinct
downright
outright
ringing
obvious
confident
glaring
dogmatic
stressed
important
solemn
sure
trenchant
definitive
evident
pointed
sober
express
accented
flat
assured
one hundred per cent
no mistake
for a face
more ❯
“Once more I woke up to an agonizing pain in my torso.”
Adjective
▲
Upsetting, or causing anxiety, sorrow or pain
distressing
sad
grievous
painful
heartbreaking
harrowing
dreadful
woeful
upsetting
tragic
lamentable
unfortunate
deplorable
disturbing
regrettable
distressful
difficult
pitiful
traumatic
heartrending
shocking
worrying
poignant
disquieting
tormenting
hurtful
saddening
affecting
unlucky
alarming
unsettling
frightening
afflicting
stressful
tragical
afflictive
concerning
fearful
haunting
nagging
confronting
heart-rending
gut-wrenching
nerve-racking
heart-breaking
anguished
sorry
vexing
troublous
daunting
bothersome
harassing
stirring
horrifying
horrible
dispiriting
horrific
rotten
hard
cheerless
mortifying
bleak
intense
sombreUK
somberUS
crushing
burdensome
unnerving
horrendous
horrid
objectionable
revolting
hairy
desolate
forbidding
gruesome
vile
devastating
injurious
disheartening
foul
frightful
abominable
lousy
execrable
ghastly
loathsome
dismaying
mean
savage
macabre
harmful
heavy
wearisome
discouraging
niggling
harrying
unsavoryUS
tiresome
disastrous
provoking
melancholy
heart-wrenching
offensive
melancholic
icky
yukky
yucky
aggravating
inconvenient
unlovely
sour
unsavouryUK
repellent
repugnant
pesky
abhorrent
agonisingUK
mortal
frustrating
damaging
unamusing
off-putting
taxing
wounding
atrocious
scarring
rueful
joyless
grisly
fraught
nightmarish
emotional
impressive
tough
disconsolate
chilling
forlorn
tender
catastrophic
monstrous
hellacious
impactful
maddening
exasperating
demoralizingUS
demoralisingUK
serious
ruthless
great
repulsive
disgusting
brutal
merciless
fierce
hostile
oppressive
depressive
boring
gross
detestable
hopeless
glum
solemn
odious
nauseating
dejecting
teasing
tedious
obnoxious
sickening
unappealing
acute
comfortless
unbearable
grody
funereal
dreary
morose
unendurable
plaguy
pestiferous
bedevillingUK
discommoding
peeving
pestilent
exacting
wicked
destructive
lachrymose
lugubrious
sober
unrelenting
unkind
infernal
chafing
carking
nettling
rebarbative
abrasive
antagonizingUS
rankling
nettlesome
cussed
infuriating
riling
pesty
pestilential
plaguey
confounded
antagonisingUK
repellant
austere
enraging
grating
jarring
punchable
rigorous
wearing
bedevilingUS
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
gnawing
thorny
problematic
tricky
pain-filled
terrifying
scary
prickly
sticky
anxious-making
mind-blowing
pitiless
vicious
oppressed
impoverished
stark
tearful
apprehensive
drab
desolating
afflicted
grieving
shattering
poverty-stricken
mighty
melting
agonizedUS
mirthless
dispirited
dolorous
dolesome
overwhelming
sentimental
passionate
expressive
nostalgic
hateful
tortured
racked
agonisedUK
feeble
paltry
crashing
invidious
to be pitied
drear
cold
depressed
unforgiving
rancid
enormous
extreme
useless
petty
meagreUK
puny
commiserable
meagerUS
derisible
dingy
plangent
pensive
dark
powerful
emotive
critical
testing
parlous
unfavorableUS
unfavourableUK
fatal
telling
soul-stirring
uplifting
heart-warming
deadly
ruinous
irritable
bewildering
troubled
foreboding
embarrassing
abject
cataclysmic
murderous
onerous
relentless
stiff
rough
hardhanded
inhuman
rugged
searing
ferocious
sore
remorseless
unpropitious
sinister
inauspicious
ominous
intemperate
inclement
heartwarming
affective
dejected
despondent
straitened
tortuous
inhospitable
spartan
scabrous
stern
inexorable
stringent
mephitical
hellish
sullen
perplexing
revulsive
distressed
extremely upsetting
inordinate
sharp
peracute
lethal
adverse
emotionally moving
deathly
hapless
fateful
despairing
biting
significant
very great
arousing affect
ill-fated
hard-hearted
ill-starred
cringey
humourlessUK
crummy
humorlessUS
unsatisfactory
stinking
hideous
lurid
unacceptable
sedate
abysmal
undesirable
diabolical
uncool
grotty
godawful
uninviting
ugly
nauseous
beastly
nail-biting
nerve-wracking
extremely bad
cataclysmal
shameful
direful
damning
black
blue
grief-stricken
egregious
detrimental
catastrophal
downcast
woebegone
disgraceful
downhearted
devastative
inconsolable
broken-hearted
annihilatory
low
intolerable
heartbroken
untoward
down
crestfallen
brokenhearted
crippling
lonesome
heinous
cast down
down in the dumps
unspeakable
godforsaken
heavy-hearted
hurting
contemptible
heartsick
saddened
bereft
elegiac
droopy
heavyhearted
hangdog
heartsore
scurvy
lonely
inferior
sepulchral
low-spirited
helpless
elegiacal
down in the mouth
inexcusable
ignominious
desperate
inopportune
outrageous
reprehensible
earth-shattering
formidable
squalid
unpromising
iniquitous
sorrowing
doomed
spine-chilling
fearsome
intimidating
dread
redoubtable
hair-raising
sordid
god-awful
base
despicable
worthless
ridiculous
regretful
pernicious
indigent
scungy
pessimistic
devastated
upset
morbid
shoddy
dreich
saturnine
destitute
sunless
plutonian
tenebrous
tenebrific
in pain
derisory
Cimmerian
long-faced
shabby
cut up
untimely
feel-bad
unadvantageous
disadvantageous
deleterious
ill-advised
violent
convulsionary
inimical
glaring
annihilative
climactic
climacteric
blameworthy
wrong
infelicitous
ravaging
blighting
messy
nefarious
flagrant
beseeching
ruined
entreating
supplicating
imploring
unsuccessful
flagitious
mourning
too bad
abortive
weighty
villainous
mediocre
spiritless
ill-boding
luckless
compassionate
commiserative
arousing
suffering
small
choked
a pity
predictive
prophetic
revealing
oracular
apocalyptic
dirty
chill
murky
darkening
grayUS
crushed
lorn
greyUK
cloudy
gutted
companionless
inept
lost
bummed
powerless
in the pits
down-and-out
chap-fallen
downtrodden
in low spirits
in a blue funk
acheronian
unwelcoming
forgotten
homeless
forsaken
abandoned
sobering
perilous
dangerous
threatening
menacing
precarious
rubbish
absurd
ludicrous
third-rate
sucky
inadequate
foolish-looking
silly
laughable
second-rate
friendless
uncared-for
destroyed
out of sorts
dragging
cynical
down and out
weighed down
solitary
defenselessUS
fed up
defencelessUK
fruitless
in the dumps
alone
trashy
filthy
demoralizedUS
defeatist
life-threatening
unforgivable
pained
bearish
downbeat
disheartened
resigned
weary
negative
scandalous
senseless
inglorious
preposterous
unmitigable
demoralisedUK
sunk
unpardonable
unconscionable
foolish
indefensible
sinful
insupportable
ignoble
immoral
discreditable
disreputable
in despair
up the creek
long-suffering
without hope
unjustifiable
dishonourableUK
dishonorableUS
terrific
insufferable
cruddy
criminal
opprobrious
grewsome
nightmare
threnodic
dirge-like
from hell
shuddersome
creepy
spooky
frozen
gnarly
dolent
very bad
in sorrow
in mourning
like death warmed up
full of sorrow
God-awful
beyond contempt
terminal
final
killing
incurable
malignant
killer
baneful
untreatable
fell
baleful
mortiferous
noxious
vital
poisonous
virulent
malefic
causing death
death dealing
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Feeling, or causing, (typically slight or stinging) pain
smarting
painful
stinging
sore
hurting
aching
throbbing
piercing
sharp
raw
biting
tender
excruciating
afflictive
sensitive
inflamed
burning
severe
achy
irritated
troublesome
caustic
prickly
tingly
hurtful
keen
uncomfortable
vexatious
nasty
hurt
in pain
chafed
reddened
delicate
bruised
injured
pounding
pained
wounded
red
suffering
afflicted
stiff
twingeing
harrowing
grievous
gnawing
searing
tingling
abscessed
tired
ulcerated
distressing
nagging
irritating
unpleasant
difficult
killing
feeling tender
feeling uncomfortable
playing up
giving someone gyp
giving someone trouble
distressed
broken
gammy
damaged
impaired
smartful
beaten
laborious
disabled
battered
incapacitated
stricken
weakened
bleeding
agonizedUS
mutilated
grazed
discolouredUK
lacerated
mangled
scratched
mauled
harmed
gashed
agonisedUK
marred
disfigured
ruptured
discoloredUS
hit
scarred
scraped
nicked
struck
cut
crushed
busted up
achy breaky
black-and-blue
agonisingUK
arthritic
swollen
injurious
acute
hypersensitive
oversensitive
tortured
warped
shot
buffeted
exhausted
weary
bad
rheumatic
crook
game
knackered
creaky
tight
rheumaticky
taut
footsore
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Requiring more effort than could be reasonably expected or asked for
tall
demanding
difficult
exacting
unreasonable
hard
tough
bruising
brutal
challenging
daunting
excessive
exorbitant
gruelingUS
gruellingUK
harsh
intense
mighty
punishing
rigorous
rough
tedious
tortuous
torturous
troublesome
weighty
ambitious
arduous
backbreaking
back-breaking
bothersome
colossal
crushing
excruciating
extreme
fierce
forbidding
formidable
grievous
grim
immoderate
impossible
laborious
oppressive
ponderous
severe
strenuous
stressful
thorny
trying
unfair
crippling
galling
harrowing
hellish
herculean
merciless
onerous
steep
taxing
unsparing
uphill
wearisome
wearying
exhausting
fatiguing
imperious
prohibitive
stringent
testing
titanic
toilsome
effortful
heavy
hellacious
killer
moiling
murderous
rugged
stiff
sweaty
burdensome
tiring
tiresome
debilitating
wearing
draining
toilful
grinding
sapping
painful
Herculean
energy-consuming
painstaking
unforgiving
unremitting
unbearable
operose
cumbersome
knackering
intimidating
unyielding
upstream
vigorous
hairy
gargantuan
exigent
laboredUS
serious
intolerable
uncomfortable
unpleasant
distressing
jarring
solemn
distressful
slavish
difficile
labouredUK
killing
shattering
backbreaker
depleting
staggering
immense
gigantic
tough going
Augean
very hard
uphill battle
dour
thoroughgoing
hefty
irksome
dogged
major
slow
relentless
enervating
boring
wretched
exerting
dicey
awful
problem
ominous
hazardous
insufferable
easier said than done
nerve-racking
high-impact
sticky
torturesome
unendurable
tormenting
not easy
hard-won
drudgy
no picnic
worksome
vicious
marathon
cruel
like getting blood out of a stone
troubling
unnerving
ferocious
almighty
savage
scabrous
problematic
high-pressure
discomforting
persnickety
pressing
tricky
time-consuming
tall order
pick-and-shovel
agonisingUK
vexatious
worrying
exasperating
traumatic
worrisome
strict
vexing
awkward
disturbing
mean
frustrating
inconvenient
enervative
upsetting
inhuman
wicked
aggravating
hectic
maddening
pressured
fraught
stern
terrible
annoying
ruthless
superincumbent
disagreeable
pesky
bitter
hardhanded
searing
pestilent
pitiless
irritating
austere
bad
nagging
monumental
weary
infuriating
bold
niggling
draconian
nasty
energetic
impressive
aggressive
plaguy
pestiferous
pestilential
murder
punitive
knotty
inexorable
troublous
unrelenting
rowdy
carking
tyrannical
unfeeling
callous
hard-hearted
heartless
prostrating
embittering
hostile
grave
tense
uncharitable
grandiose
daring
perturbing
anxious
Sisyphean
drastic
dreadful
harassing
unsettling
extravagant
lofty
rankling
concerning
intractable
ungovernable
objectionable
drudging
repressive
infernal
irking
agitating
busy
domineering
elaborate
despotic
headache
abrasive
riling
very difficult
overwhelming
ugly
unmanageable
chafing
nettling
nettlesome
peeving
incommodious
confounded
rude
undisciplined
disorderly
unjust
recalcitrant
large-scale
wayward
discouraging
puzzling
unruly
rebarbative
cussed
pesty
plaguey
a stinker of a
anxiety-ridden
physical
powerful
stretching
huge
prodigious
searching
responsible
racking
chastening
massive
strained
unrelaxing
unkind
fiendishly difficult
tremendously difficult
very challenging
overtaxing
overpowering
plodding
mammoth
careful
hypercritical
thorough
precise
critical
nit-picking
cold-hearted
cold
a nuisance
tight
an imposition
overburdening
high
forceful
heroic
courageous
protracted
lengthy
hardworking
by the book
grating
provoking
displeasing
gruff
no piece of cake
shocking
repugnant
flinty
crabbed
ungentle
spartan
louring
sour
steely
stark
lowering
tough job
rough go
surly
swingeing
sky-high
inflated
extortionate
enraging
lamentable
deplorable
unwelcome
antagonizingUS
harrying
afflicting
disappointing
ghastly
foul
horrible
rotten
horrid
vile
audacious
glowing
clammy
perspiring
sweating
iniquitous
inordinate
outrageous
dictatorial
teasing
festering
antipathetic
appalling
atrocious
frightful
horrendous
abominable
large order
heavy sledding
autocratic
industrious
unsatisfying
unattractive
antagonisingUK
undemocratic
unrealistic
grand
intrepid
really hard
tyrannous
offensive
slimy
drenched
dripping
moist
bathed
damp
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
grotty
authoritarian
iron-fisted
pretentious
visionary
frantic
chaotic
improbable
ballsy
brash
idealistic
unfeasible
insupportable
perverse
complex
complicated
overbearing
coercive
anti-democratic
soaked
boiling
hot
soggy
sultry
stinky
warm
wet
perspiry
diaphoretic
sudoric
drippy
humid
fanciful
unreal
magnificent
active
eventful
frenzied
frenetic
lively
lousy
beastly
high-handed
overweening
peremptory
improper
unlikely
unmerciful
disheartening
gloomy
sombreUK
dispiriting
ironhanded
rough going
dismal
depressive
bleak
heavy-handed
somberUS
depressing
confining
disquieting
discomposing
mystifying
from hell
unacceptable
egregious
uncompromising
remorseless
turbulent
restless
far-fetched
importunate
difficult to achieve
implacable
flustering
animated
madhouse
tireless
full
tumultuous
riotous
furious
bustling
wild
infestive
dangerous
alarming
damaging
messy
problematical
bewildering
intricate
incomprehensible
convoluted
perplexing
baffling
confounding
unpitying
cold-blooded
beyond bearing
not to be borne
full on
spirited
action-packed
bumpy
raucous
covered with sweat
a bummer of a
thick-skinned
inhumane
inflexible
obdurate
hard-boiled
compassionless
desensitizedUS
indurate
soulless
case-hardened
pachydermatous
insensitive
insensate
stonyhearted
stoney
stony
affectless
slash-and-burn
unsympathetic
take-no-prisoners
ironhearted
solid
desensitisedUK
disobedient
rebellious
dysfunctional
defiant
delinquent
socially impaired
belligerent
willful
self-willed
naughty
badly behaved
uncooperative
impudent
erratic
errant
hot-tempered
disturbed
disruptive
badly-behaved
misbehaving
whiny
roguish
sullen
cantankerous
undisciplinable
loudmouthed
contumacious
ill-behaved
bellicose
incorrigible
insolent
maladjusted
confrontational
combative
argumentative
malicious
ill-disciplined
mischievous
truculent
pugnacious
unrestrainable
uncontrollable
stubborn
scrappy
uncompliant
rascally
insubordinate
uncontainable
peevish
devilish
petulant
indocile
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Very difficult to deal with
impossible
intolerable
unbearable
excruciating
painful
unsustainable
insufferable
insupportable
oppressive
unacceptable
awful
horrendous
undesirable
unendurable
unsupportable
too much to bear
too much
beyond endurance
past bearing
a bit much
beyond bearing
not to be borne
no-win
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to try the patience of Job
overpowering
inadmissible
enough
heavy-handed
unsurpassable
agonisingUK
dreadful
burdensome
unspeakable
offensive
final straw
inexcusable
enough already
unreasonable
outrageous
awkward
recalcitrant
difficult
intractable
objectionable
ungovernable
detestable
crushing
devastating
grim
wayward
terrible
perverse
demanding
horrible
distressing
improper
infuriating
exasperating
maddening
towering
uncomfortable
heavy
grinding
beyond the pale
egregious
enough to tax the patience of a saint
enough to test the patience of a saint
hard to bear
forceful
overbearing
weighty
powerful
persuasive
dynamic
intimidating
dominating
compelling
shattering
mind-blowing
more than flesh and blood can stand
more than one can stand
more ❯
Noun
▲
A consideration for or reasoning
thought
consideration
deliberation
reflection
attention
regard
contemplation
examination
forethought
interest
notice
review
thinking
time
heed
pondering
rumination
scrutiny
account
advisement
awareness
brainwork
mind
agonisingUK
hesitation
premeditation
navel-gazing
object
study
cogitation
more ❯
Noun
▲
Thought, deliberation or meditation
cogitation
thought
consideration
contemplation
deliberation
meditation
reflection
rumination
thinking
abstraction
cerebration
concept
conception
idea
image
impression
intellection
musing
notion
picture
pondering
speculation
study
brainwork
brooding
puzzling
worrying
mind's eye
mulling over
view
advisement
debate
observation
opinion
account
perusal
pensiveness
absorption
imagination
agonisingUK
introspection
scrutiny
concentration
excogitation
examination
attention
heed
reasoning
forethought
analysis
regard
mulling
reverie
discussion
understanding
judgmentUS
review
application
calculation
brown study
judgementUK
logic
serious thought
thoughts
thoughtfulness
self-examination
belief
deep thought
planning
deduction
rationalizationUS
ideation
cognition
inference
thought process
theory
inferring
concluding
apprehending
supposition
hypothesis
circumspection
assumption
conjecture
premeditation
ratiocination
rationalisationUK
thesis
introversion
reason
weighing up
assessment
self-observation
self-questioning
self-searching
self-analysis
heart-searching
soul-searching
self-contemplation
self-scrutiny
navel-gazing
self-reflection
lucubration
grind
prayer
ruminating
caution
carefulness
care
investigation
inlook
solipsism
egoism
mentation
vision
premise
perception
consultation
self-discovery
self-absorption
quiet time
philosophy
conceptualizationUS
ponderings
conferring
dreaming
a brown study
conclusion
inspection
daydreaming
fantasy
preconception
vagary
caprice
dream
rap
prudence
wariness
ventilation
negotiation
purpose
notice
prospect
conceptualisationUK
intuition
judging
anticipation
hope
knowing
seeing
deriving
inducing
theorization
conclusions
daydream
woolgathering
preoccupation
think
period of deliberation
period of contemplation
spell of contemplation
period of reflection
spell of deliberation
spell of reflection
recollection
ideas
position
beliefs
views
outlook
viewpoint
opinions
viewpoints
presumption
discerning
perceiving
deducing
rationalizingUS
considering
realizingUS
evaluation
determination
finding
suspicion
eduction
verdict
induction
consequence
sequitur
navel gazing
day-dreaming
wool-gathering
accepted wisdom
point of view
points of view
line of thought
guess
results
conviction
findings
corollary
guesswork
surmise
realisingUK
rationalisingUK
theorizingUS
interpretation
result
answer
illation
derivation
talk
hypothesizingUS
guesstimate
postulation
forecast
prediction
shot in the dark
hearsay
stab
gossip
stab in the dark
studying
shot
hunch
sneaking suspicion
hypothesisingUK
weighing
rumorUS
theorisingUK
rumourUK
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause anguish or distress to
worrying
distressing
excruciating
anguishing
disturbing
besetting
straining
fretting
paining
plaguing
crucifying
fussing
harrowing
persecuting
suffering
tormenting
afflicting
bedevilingUS
bedevillingUK
besieging
laboringUS
labouringUK
musing
racking
torturing
cursing
squirming
trying
martyring
troubling
harassing
vexing
oppressing
annoying
wounding
causing suffering to
irritating
pestering
smiting
harrying
giving someone grief
wringing
hounding
causing agony to
irking
mortifying
mistreating
hurting
injuring
molesting
hassling
upsetting
badgering
beleaguering
causing pain to
bugging
burdening
maltreating
abusing
stressing
lacerating
blighting
pursuing
ill-treating
teasing
aggravating
exasperating
nagging
inflicting anguish on
haunting
victimizingUS
devastating
taxing
tearing
rending
traumatizingUS
grieving
punishing
wronging
frustrating
perturbing
deviling
devilling
provoking
hectoring
discommoding
victimisingUK
nettling
traumatisingUK
inconveniencing
preying on
infesting
agitating
inflicting pain on
inflicting suffering on
picking on
gnawing at
nagging at
lying heavy on
weighing heavily on
appalling
driving up the wall
scourging
damaging
shattering
crushing
hunting
suffering from
scarring
assailing
testing
lampooning
browbeating
hurting deeply
ridiculing
ailing
dogging
mithering
riding
grappling
wrestling
exerting
tyrannizingUS
keeping after
gripping
chafing
gnawing
galling
stabbing
piercing
importuning
tyrannisingUK
discriminating against
stretching
wearying
sapping
draining
exhausting
visiting
causing trouble to
taking
striking
pressing
affecting
convulsing
buttonholing
driving round the bend
getting on your nerves
giving someone a hard time
getting in your hair
baiting
taunting
tiring
shaking
forcing
scorning
ribbing
chaffing
bullying
chivvying
brutalisingUK
beating
mangling
mutilating
maiming
brutalizingUS
martyrizing
grilling
impaling
whipping
bending someone's ear
needling
obsessing
making demands on
putting a strain on
wearing out
tiring out
making severe demands on
ragging
breaking
heckling
boning
searing
leading someone a merry dance
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
driving bananas
rubbing salt in wound
giving a hard time
rifling
robbing
ruining
ransacking
demolishing
marauding
raping
wasting
plundering
ravaging
stripping
pillaging
depredating
destroying
looting
spoliating
havocking
despoiling
spoiling
desolating
fleecing
devouring
desecrating
gutting
possessing
recurring
dwelling
intruding
frightening
materializingUS
returning
voodooing
pervading
reappearing
weighing on
terrorizingUS
overrunning
terrifying
preoccupying
permeating
appearing
staying with
hovering
terrorisingUK
inhabiting
discomfiting
coming back to
disquieting
coming back
materialisingUK
rising
manifesting
maddening
floating
walking
laying waste
cutting up
bloodying
agonisingUK
incommoding
disserving
misusing
harming
crossing up
laying a finger on
causing injury to
lashing out at
ill-using
doing violence to
putting down
trampling on
treating roughly
more ❯
“She could not help but agonize herself wondering if Will was going to ask her to the dance.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to feel anguish or distress
worrying
fretting
stressing
brooding
stewing
fearing
fussing
obsessing
sweating
lamenting
feeling uneasy
upsetting oneself
exercising oneself
wrestling with oneself
carrying on
stewing over
tormenting yourself
torturing yourself
eating heart out
going through the mill
singing the blues
taking it badly
losing sleep
panicking
troubling
suffering
bothering
getting overwrought
getting worked up
torturing oneself
getting in a sweat
getting in a tiz-woz
dithering
abiding
stomaching
torturing
tolerating
exerting
enduring
going
brooking
chafing
standing
dreading
taking
staying the course
losing sleep over
sticking it out
dwelling on
concerning oneself
having qualms
getting stressed
biting one's nails
more ❯
“Their generosity will mean that Joan will no longer need to agonize about her son and his future.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to feel deep sadness, distress or anguish
grieving
mourning
suffering
anguishing
sorrowing
hurting
bleeding
aching
lamenting
regretting
weeping
bemoaning
pining
crying
wailing
sobbing
bewailing
weeping and wailing
carrying on
rueing
ruing
moaning
keening
repining
complaining
deploring
feeling wretched
feeling sad
shedding tears
going through the mill
sympathizingUS
sympathisingUK
sympathizing with
blubbering
languishing
yearning
sighing
missing
fretting
feeling for
paining
wearing black
longing for
grieving over
wringing hands
feeling pain
enduring agony
going through a lot
experiencing hardship
having a bad time
despairing
groaning
eating heart out
agonisingUK
grieving for
howling
plaining
weeping for
ululating
kicking self
pining for
wailing about
singing
shedding tears for
beating one's breast
raining
crying for
bawling
wailing for
complaining about
weeping over
more ❯
“They agonize over the passing of those magic moments when it seemed that everyone was able to rally together and move to a common drumbeat.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to think or contemplate deeply about something
thinking
contemplating
brooding
cogitating
pondering
ruminating
speculating
mulling over
weighing up
chewing over
dwelling on
puzzling over
stewing over
poring on
meditating
musing
deliberating
considering
reflecting
thinking about
meditating on
agonizing over
musing on
worrying
ruminating on
worrying about
ruminating over
poring over
obsessing
moping
turning
cerebrating
entertaining
questioning
pondering on
pondering over
giving consideration to
eying
reviewing
weighing
perpending
giving thought to
debating
brooding over
conceiving
reasoning
brainstorming
ruminating about
figuring
envisaging
envisioning
brooding on
imagining
chewing on
kicking around
wrestling with
speculating about
looking at
noodling around
flashing on
chewing the cud
thinking over
beating one's brains out about
agonisingUK
turning over
mooning
pining
racking brains
excogitating
rolling
evaluating
examining
wondering
cogitating on
putting on thinking cap
dwelling
stewing
judging
pouting
appraising
mulling
cogitating about
using one's head
brooding about
thinking hard
asking oneself
giving much thought to
asking oneself about
grumping
woolgathering
yearning
grumbling
regretting
building castles in air
having a long face
intellectualizingUS
analyzingUS
discussing
rationalizingUS
comprehending
logicalizing
consulting
debating with oneself
ideating
arguing
minding
rationalisingUK
figuring out
intellectualisingUK
analysingUK
having in mind
wondering about
talking over
sorting out
batting it around
putting on one's thinking cap
running up a flagpole
hammering away at
pouring it on
knocking around
thinking on
thinking out
percolating
recollecting
feeling
understanding
mulling over things
giving some thought to
chewing over things
turning over in your mind
stewing about
apprehending
processing
discerning
lucubrating
cudgeling one's brains
chewing
concentrating
sleeping on it
planning
designing
intending
scheming
purposing
digesting
devising
thinking hard about
musing over
cudgellingUK
marvelingUS
cudgelingUS
marvellingUK
turning over in one's mind
proposing
projecting
plotting
viewing
tracking
engaging in contemplation
sorrowing
stargazing
rhapsodizingUS
romanticizingUS
fantasizingUS
swooning
gushing
thinking deeply
entertaining idea
feeling unhappy
saying to oneself
staring into space
estimating
glowering
fantasisingUK
rhapsodisingUK
romanticisingUK
tripping out
tuning out
spacing out
zoning out
idling
inferring
deducing
resolving
appreciating
feeling upset
feeling miserable
feeling despondent
frowning
grousing
griping
lowering
scowling
mooning about
mooning around
despairing
ratiocinating
having one's head in the clouds
harbouring a grudge
taking under consideration
stopping to consider
chafing
aching
sinking
taking on
looking sullen
having the hump
hanging around
letting one's thoughts wander
indulging in wool-gathering
losing heart
pining away
wasting time
feeling sorry for yourself
going about like a half-shut knife
wearing a long face
more ❯
“But her husband will agonize over this decision. Again and again, he will consider all options while avoiding a final commitment.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for be constantly or visibly anxious
fretting
worrying
anguishing
brooding
fussing
stewing
moping
bothering
complaining
fearing
pining
sighing
sorrowing
stressing
sweating
troubling
upsetting oneself
concerning oneself
feeling uneasy
feeling unhappy
grumbling
obsessing
whining
affronting
bleeding
carping
chagrining
fuming
grieving
hassling
distressing yourself
feeling peeved
losing sleep
making a fuss
upsetting yourself
distressing oneself
taking on
losing sleep over
sweating it out
carrying a heavy load
eating one's heart out
getting into a dither
Verb
▲
Present participle for wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort
squirming
wriggling
writhing
twisting
fidgeting
fidgetting
wiggling
jiggling
shifting
twitching
floundering
threshing
turning
fiddling
jerking
jigging
sliding
slithering
squiggling
thrashing
tossing
flailing
worrying
skewing
struggling
winding
worming
feeling uncomfortable
tossing and turning
distorting
agonisingUK
stirring
agitating
moving around
budging
quivering
snaking
crawling
shuddering
creeping
playing
bellying
shaking
moving
joggling
slinking
stumbling
gliding
grovellingUK
grovelingUS
moving about
jumping
changing position
fluttering
wagging
wobbling
waggling
quaking
cringing
toying
trifling
twiddling
zigzagging
blenching
shuffling
fussing
starting
trembling
shivering
inching
moving restlessly
quailing
flinching
fooling around
fooling about
squinching
edging
messing about
messing around
sneaking
scrabbling
swerving
moving on hands and knees
tumbling
splashing
fumbling
blundering
shimmying
heaving
plunging
waving
wabbling
jouncing
rattling
vibrating
juddering
bobbling
staggering
locomoting
slipping
glissading
skidding
oozing
coasting
undulating
skating
skittering
extricating oneself
flailing about
fingering
handling
touching
feeling
thumbing
pawing
chafing
fretting
bustling
dragging
messing
puttering
pottering
puddling
fooling
dabbling
retuning
doodling
jittering
wavering
hitching
acting aimlessly
wasting time
spasming
trailing
shrinking
messing with
playing with
picking at
skulking
encroaching
quavering
blinking
grimacing
playing around
dragging oneself along
pulling oneself along
clambering
baulkingUK
balkingUS
gumshoeing
lurking
scrambling
insinuating
pulling oneself
advancing stealthily
seizing
beating
gripping
lurching
palpitating
snapping
kicking
moving convulsively
twingeing
contracting
clasping
ticcing
grasping
paining
twinging
nipping
vellicating
grabbing
lugging
moving spasmodically
clutching
cowering
insinuating oneself
dragging yourself
going on all fours
worming your way
advancing slowly
loitering along
crawling along
approaching unnoticed
moving on all fours
blanching
moving at snail's pace
moving at a snail's pace
shying
going on belly
scowling
gasping
ducking
jibbing
dodging
pulling yourself along
making a face
pulling a face
drawing back
shrinking away
backing off
crawling on all fours
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause emotional distress to someone
hurting
distressing
offending
outraging
upsetting
annoying
bothering
aggrieving
angering
displeasing
irking
irritating
saddening
stinging
vexing
affronting
ailing
bugging
disgruntling
disgusting
disturbing
exasperating
galling
miffing
needling
paining
riling
shocking
troubling
depressing
devastating
grieving
horrifying
mortifying
peeving
perplexing
plaguing
worrying
wounding
afflicting
chafing
discombobulating
discommoding
disobliging
disquieting
dogging
excruciating
fazing
fretting
jarring
nauseating
nettling
pestering
piquing
repelling
repulsing
sickening
slighting
bleeding
burning up
causing anguish
causing offense
causing sorrow
causing suffering
discomfiting
eating at
getting to
lambasting
mourning
nagging at
ticking off
turning off
giving offence to
hurting someone's feelings
making unhappy
pushing the buttons of
cutting to the quick
thumbing nose at
perturbing
agitating
tormenting
oppressing
concerning
disconcerting
discomposing
harrowing
torturing
harassing
dismaying
stressing
alarming
fussing
nagging
straining
crushing
unsettling
injuring
unnerving
burdening
hassling
harrying
causing suffering to
ruffling
trying
flustering
racking
rattling
disheartening
weighing down
distempering
frazzling
unhinging
flurrying
derailing
spooking
hagriding
gnawing at
causing anguish to
making miserable
breaking the heart of
making wretched
freaking out
weirding out
making anxious
giving a hard time
making uneasy
cutting
constraining
hitting hard
making your heart bleed
despairing
provoking
aggravating
causing disquiet to
psyching out
bedevilingUS
persecuting
bedevillingUK
putting off
besetting
throwing off
beleaguering
stewing
fearing
niggling
sweating
distracting
alaruming
anguishing
discountenancing
cursing
hounding
discomforting
puzzling
throwing
confounding
psyching
tantalizingUS
breaking
shaking
desolating
pushing
strapping
tantalisingUK
indisposing
exercising
undoing
martyring
nit-picking
pricking
interrupting
hacking you off
causing discomfort to
stirring up
causing concern to
driving up the wall
making waves
making uncomfortable
giving a bad time
giving someone grief
flipping out
doing a number on
pushing buttons
throwing off balance
making it tough for
weighing on
picking on
arousing anxiety in
getting at
cutting up
dejecting
dispiriting
bringing down
casting down
bringing one down
breaking one's heart
dampening spirits
putting into a funk
discouraging
putting a damper on
bumming out
dragging down
narking
making blue
chastening
hacking off
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause anguish or distress to
besetting
plaguing
bedevilingUS
bedevillingUK
torturing
afflicting
tormenting
attacking
troubling
assailing
besieging
harassing
racking
beleaguering
embarrassing
anguishing
badgering
cursing
dogging
enclosing
encompassing
excruciating
harrowing
harrying
haunting
oppressing
perplexing
persecuting
surrounding
worrying
bothering
encircling
entangling
environing
hounding
pestering
vexing
aggressing
bugging
circling
compassing
girdling
hassling
infesting
invading
nagging
nudging
overcoming
overrunning
riding
ringing
hemming in
falling on
falling upon
picking on
giving the needle
starting in on
driving up the wall
giving a bad time
giving a hard time
giving one the business
jumping on one's case
putting the squeeze on
Verb
▲
Present participle for long for
pining
aching
hungering
languishing
longing
sighing
yearning
itching
missing
mourning
thirsting
bemoaning
lamenting
ruing
rueing
carrying a torch
coveting
craving
crying over
desiring
dreaming
fretting
fretting about
grieving
grieving over
hankering
suffering
wanting
weeping over
wishing
hankering after
hankering for
shedding tears for
crying out for
fading away
languishing for
longing for
lusting after
pining away
regretting the absence of
spoiling for
thirsting for
wishing for
yenning for
regretting the loss of
eating your heart out
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move around or sideways unsteadily
tossing
lurching
pitching
rocking
rolling
swaying
heaving
labouringUK
floundering
reeling
undulating
wallowing
careening
chucking
ditching
dumping
keeling
listing
plunging
seesawing
veering
wabbling
wobbling
jolting
pitchpoling
agitating
bobbing
buffeting
buffetting
disturbing
joggling
laboringUS
oscillating
swinging
waving
letting fly
making heavy weather
moving restlessly
rising and falling
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