tortured
Wracked with anguish
Tortured describes someone who has been subjected to torture, or something marked by intense suffering: a tortured prisoner, a tortured expression.
Extended uses suggest painful strain or excessive complexity: tortured logic, a tortured metaphor.
A tortured artist or soul suffers inner anguish, often romantically portrayed as fuel for creativity.
Severely emotionally distressed
- tormentedSubjected to severe distress
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- agonizedSuffered extreme distress
- distressedSuffering emotional turmoil
traumatized · haunted · wounded · pained · brokenhearted · grief-stricken · despairing · wretched
Bodily or emotional distress
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- achePersistent dull discomfort
throbbing · writhing · convulsing · racked · excruciating · searing · lacerating · piercing
Admission of wrongdoing
- detaineePerson held in custody
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- captiveOne held by force
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
inquisition · interrogator · custody · waterboarding · rack · thumbscrews · extraction · dungeon
Wound around itself
- contortedTwisted unnaturally
- labyrinthineExtremely complex and winding
- convolutedExcessively complex or twisted
- strainedUnder uncomfortable tension
forced · overwrought · mangled · distorted · tangled · knotted · warped · bent
anguished
Severely emotionally distressed
- tormentedSubjected to severe distress
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- agonizedSuffered extreme distress
distressed · traumatized · haunted · wounded · pained · brokenhearted · grief-stricken · despairing · wretched · afflicted
pain
Bodily or emotional distress
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
ache · throbbing · writhing · convulsing · racked · excruciating · searing · lacerating · piercing · burning
confession
Admission of wrongdoing
coercion · inquisition · interrogator · custody · waterboarding · rack · thumbscrews · extraction · dungeon · shackles
twisted
Wound around itself
- contortedTwisted unnaturally
- labyrinthineExtremely complex and winding
- convolutedExcessively complex or twisted
strained · forced · overwrought · mangled · distorted · tangled · knotted · warped · bent · complicated
genius
Person of rare brilliance
- creativeProducing original ideas
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- PoeAmerican gothic writer's surname
Van Gogh · Kafka · Plath · madness · obsession · driven · brooding · melancholic · intense · dark
- Byronic Herobrooding, tormented, mysterious, rebellious, passionate
- killedkilled, murdered, slain, assassinated, executed
torturedstraightforward
Clear and uncomplicated
effortless · natural · simple · direct · unaffected
- water tortureTorment by repeated drops
- torture chamberSpace for inflicting suffering
- tortured soulOne in profound anguish
- torture deviceObject causing deliberate pain
- tortured artistCreative person driven by inner turmoil
- torture rackJoint-separating punishment device