What does torturous mean?

torturous means "extremely painful".

How many syllables are in torturous?

torturous has 3 syllables: tor-tu-rous. The stress falls on "tor". In IPA it is /ˈtɔɹˌtʃuəs/.

What is another word for torturous?

Close synonyms include agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing. 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 torturous a common word?

torturous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 torturous?

1 word rhymes with torturous. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

torturous — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
extremely painful
Synonymsagonizing agonising excruciating harrowing torturing torturesome
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