What does excruciating mean?

excruciating means "extremely painful".

How many syllables are in excruciating?

excruciating has 5 syllables: ex-cru-ci-a-ting. The stress falls on "cru". In IPA it is /ɪkˈskɹuʃiˌeɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for excruciating?

Close synonyms include agonizing, agonising, harrowing, torturing, torturous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is excruciating a common word?

excruciating is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with excruciating?

20 words rhyme with excruciating. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

excruciating — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
extremely painful
Synonymsagonizing agonising harrowing torturing torturous torturesome
Similarpainful

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