tormentful

adj

Etymology

From torment + -ful.

  1. derived from tormentum
  2. derived from torment
  3. inherited from torment
  4. suffixed as tormentful — “torment + ful

Definitions

  1. Full of torment

    Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.

    • Malice, and envy, and revenge , are unquiet pasions; and in what nature soever they are, they are as vexatious and tormentful to itself, as they are troublesome and mischievous to others
    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA