Excruciatingly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excruciating \Ex*cru"ci*a`ting\
     Torturing; racking. "Excruciating pain." --V. Knox.
     "Excruciating fears." --Bentley -- {Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly},
     adv.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excruciatingly
       adv : in a very painful manner; "the progress was agonizingly
             slow" [syn: {agonizingly}, {torturously}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "excruciatingly":
     abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly,
     blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly,
     deathly, deplorably, deucedly, distressfully, distressingly,
     dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, exorbitantly,
     extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously, harrowingly,
     heartbreakingly, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inexcusably,
     infernally, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, miserably,
     nakedly, openly, painfully, pathetically, piteously, pitiably,
     ruefully, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful,
     something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, torturously,
     unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably,
     woefully