agonizing

agonizing

English

Adjective

agonizing (comparative more agonizing, superlative most agonizing)

1. Causing physical or mental agony.

   It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

Translations

causing agony

Esperanto: angoriga French: agonisant (fr) Manx: aaghaeragh

Persian: پر تب و تاب‎ (por tab-o-tâb) Portuguese: agonizante (pt) Spanish: terrible (es), angustioso (es)

Verb

agonizing

1. present participle of agonize

Noun

agonizing (plural agonizings)

1. The act of one who agonizes.
   • 1918, W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago

     I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.