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What is the adjective for torment?

What's the adjective for torment? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb torment which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

tormentful
  1. Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.
tormentous
  1. (rare, dated) Involving or causing torment; having the nature of torture.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. torturous, tormenting, excruciating, agonizing, harrowing, racking, torturing, wrenching, distressing, raging, anguishing, agonising, punishing, vexing, harrying, intense, extreme, violent, fierce, vehement, disturbing, tortuous, suffering, tearing, struggling, grievous, severe, harsh, acute, unbearable, painful, searing, insufferable, terrible, dreadful, bitter, piercing, sharp, unendurable, galling, afflicting, exquisite, hurtful, awful, cruel, heartrending, burning, frightful, more than one can bear, hellish … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The hook tormentous and the melted lead.”
      “Few adults could have survived the tormentous, agonizing heartbreak Jimmy endured.”
tormentable
  1. Capable of being tormented.
tormentless
  1. Without or lacking torment
tormenting
  1. Involving or causing torment.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excruciating, agonising, agonizing, harrowing, torturous, racking, intense, extreme, violent, torturing, fierce, distressing, wrenching, vehement, disturbing, raging, tortuous, suffering, tearing, struggling, anguishing, tormentous, grievous, severe, harsh, acute, unbearable, painful, searing, insufferable, terrible, dreadful, bitter, piercing, sharp, unendurable, galling, afflicting, exquisite, hurtful, awful, cruel, heartrending, burning, frightful, more than one can bear, hellish, stabbing, shooting, heavy … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “His tormenting cries echoed through the empty hallway, revealing the excruciating pain he was enduring.”
      “The tormenting memories of his past haunted him every night, causing him great pain and anguish.”
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