agonizingly
With excruciating slowness
Agonizingly describes something that causes intense suffering or distress, whether physical or emotional.
It emphasizes the drawn-out, excruciating nature of an experience: The rescue team worked agonizingly slowly through the rubble.
The word often intensifies descriptions of painful waiting, difficult decisions, or prolonged discomfort.
Something agonizingly close falls just short of success, making the near-miss all the more painful.
She was agonizingly aware of every mistake she'd made.
With extreme thoroughness
- interminablyWithout end or limit
- tediouslyIn a wearisome way
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
- drawn-outExtended beyond normal duration
prolonged · creeping · snail-paced · glacially · laboriously · dragging · endlessly · torturously
With intense suffering
- torturouslyIn an agonizing manner
- unbearablyBeyond what's endurable
- harrowinglyIn deeply distressing manner
- gut-wrenchinglyCausing intense emotional distress
heart-rendingly · searingly · wrenchingly · piercingly · achingly · rawly · sorely · acutely
In a grief-inducing manner
- distressinglyIn a manner causing anguish
- soul-crushinglyIn a spirit-destroying manner
- traumaticallyIn a deeply distressing manner
- grievouslyIn a harmful manner
miserably · wretchedly · despairingly · tormentingly · devastatingly · painfully · sorrowfully · bittersweetly
In an exasperating way
- maddeninglyCausing extreme frustration
- infuriatinglyIn an enraging manner
- exasperatinglyIn an irritating manner
- tormentinglyIn a suffering-inducing manner
teasingly · provokingly · vexingly · tantalizingly · temptingly · alluringly · almost · nearly
painstakingly
With extreme thoroughness
- interminablyWithout end or limit
- tediouslyIn a wearisome way
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
drawn-out · prolonged · creeping · snail-paced · glacially · laboriously · dragging · endlessly · torturously · excruciatingly
excruciatingly
With intense suffering
- torturouslyIn an agonizing manner
- unbearablyBeyond what's endurable
- harrowinglyIn deeply distressing manner
gut-wrenchingly · heart-rendingly · searingly · wrenchingly · piercingly · achingly · rawly · sorely · acutely · severely
heartbreakingly
In a grief-inducing manner
- distressinglyIn a manner causing anguish
- soul-crushinglyIn a spirit-destroying manner
- traumaticallyIn a deeply distressing manner
grievously · miserably · wretchedly · despairingly · tormentingly · devastatingly · painfully · sorrowfully · bittersweetly · poignantly
frustratingly
In an exasperating way
- maddeninglyCausing extreme frustration
- infuriatinglyIn an enraging manner
- exasperatinglyIn an irritating manner
tormentingly · teasingly · provokingly · vexingly · tantalizingly · temptingly · alluringly · almost · nearly
agonizinglyblissfully
With serene delight
delightfully · joyously · delightedly · ecstatically · pleasurably
agonizinglypainlessly
Without suffering or discomfort
effortlessly · easily · mercifully · smoothly · breezily