torturously

1. 1.

   in a very painful manner

   “the progress was agonizingly slow”

   Synonymsagonizinglyexcruciatingly

Questions about torturously

What does torturously mean?

torturously means "in a very painful manner".

How many syllables are in torturously?

torturously has 4 syllables: tor-tu-rou-sly. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for torturously?

Close synonyms include agonizingly, excruciatingly. 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 torturously a common word?

torturously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.