Synonyms for torturous
ˈtɔr tʃər əstor·tur·ous

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1. agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesomeadjective

   extremely painful

   Synonyms:
   harrowing, torturing, excruciating, agonising, torturesome, agonizing

   Antonyms:
   painless

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1. Anna Veduta:

   Even if the reports about Navalny being transferred to the Melekhovo Penal Colony are true, it is hardly a relief. This colony is known to be one of the toughest and most torturous in Russia, before Navalny’s appeal to a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security prison was upheld, there were already rumors he would be transferred to this colony.

2. Anna Quindlen:

   The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

3. Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason":

   Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

4. Pope Francis:

   If you don't get the information to the families, it's just torturous.

5. Pradip Subba:

   Waiting for help is more torturous than doing this ourselves, our hands are the only machine right now.