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tormentful

tormentful adjective: full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.

Adjective

tormentful (comparative more tormentful, superlative most tormentful)

  1. 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 othersa. 1694, John Tillotson, On the Happiness of good men (sermon)
    • Three like the dawnings of new-born day, they ravished every heart; Yea, tormentful to the yearner’s soul were they, these maidens three.1901, John Payne, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, El Asmaï and the Three Girls of Bassora

Forms of tormentful

comparativemore tormentful
superlativemost tormentful

Origin of tormentful

From torment + -ful.

Questions about tormentful

What does tormentful mean?
Tormentful means full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.
What part of speech is tormentful?
Tormentful is an adjective.

Words near tormentful in the dictionary

  1. tormentedly
  2. tormenter
  3. tormenters
  4. tormentest
  5. tormenteth
  6. tormentful
  7. tormentil
  8. tormentilla
  9. tormentillas
  10. tormentils
  11. tormenting

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