tormentful

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English

Etymology

From torment +‎ -ful.

Adjective

tormentful (comparative more tormentful, superlative most tormentful)

  1. Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, On the Happiness of good men (sermon)
      Malice, and envy, and revenge , are unquiet paſsions; and in what nature soever they are, they are as vexatious and tormentful to itself, as they are troublesome and mischievous to others
    • 1901, John Payne, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, El Asmaï and the Three Girls of Bassora:
      Three like the dawnings of new-born day, they ravished every heart; Yea, tormentful to the yearner’s soul were they, these maidens three.

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