agonizing

English

Alternative forms

• agonising (non-Oxford British English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: ag‧o‧niz‧ing

Adjective

agonizing (comparative more agonizing, superlative most agonizing)

1. Causing physical or mental agony.

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

Derived terms

• agonizingly
• unagonizing

Translations

causing agony

Bulgarian: мъчителен (bg) (mǎčitelen), мъчен (bg) (mǎčen) Esperanto: angoriga French: agonisant (fr) Irish: pianpháiseach, léanmhar, piolóideach, coscrach Latin: cruciabilis Manx: aaghaeragh, ard-phianjagh, angaaishagh Persian: پر تب و تاب (por tab-o-tâb) Portuguese: agonizante (pt) Russian: мучительный (ru) (mučitelʹnyj) Spanish: terrible (es), angustioso (es), agonizante (es)

Verb

agonizing

1. present participle and gerund 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.