What does Torturous mean?

Definitions for Torturous
ˈtɔr tʃər əstor·tur·ous

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Torturous.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesomeadjective

    extremely painful

Wiktionary

  1. torturousadjective

    Of or pertaining to torture.

  2. torturousadjective

    Painful, excruciating, torturing.

ChatGPT

  1. torturous

    Torturous is an adjective that describes something extremely unpleasant, painful, or distressful and appears to last an unbearable length of time. It often suggests a sense of physical or psychological suffering and torment. It can also refer to a situation or process that is complicated and frustratingly difficult to deal with or accomplish.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Torturousadjective

    involving, or pertaining to, torture

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Torturous in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Torturous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Torturous in a Sentence

  1. Libby Schaaf:

    Reports that these were part of exercise equipment do not remove nor excuse their torturous and terrorizing effects, we are all responsible for knowing the history and present day reality of lynchings, hate crimes and racial violence. Objects that invoke such terror will not be tolerated in Oakland's public spaces.

  2. Anna Quindlen:

    The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

  3. Sean McVay:

    It's an incredible honor to be here, it's also torturous to have a team win a championship and then make you come the next morning to a press conference this early.

  4. Jeffrey Rosenzweig:

    Unless the prisoner is unconscious, then drugs two and three will cause pain -- torturous punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, and state guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment.

  5. Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason":

    Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

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