Agonising

Definition: Agonising

Agonising

Adjective

1. Extremely painful.

Date "agonising" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Synonyms: Agonising

Synonyms: agonizing (adj), excruciating (adj), harrowing (adj), torturesome (adj), torturing (adj), torturous (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Agonising

Specialty definitions using "agonising": Damiens' Bed of Steel. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The same mournful, pious, agonising feeling now filled his heart.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Agonising" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.51% of the time. "Agonising" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	50.51%	50	48,117
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	44.44%	44	51,500
Noun (singular)	5.05%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	99	N/A

Language		Translations for "agonising"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		σπαρακτικός. (various references)

Pig Latin		agonisingay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-i-n-n-o-s"
	-2 letters: gaining, ingoing, noggins, noising, saining, signing, singing.
	-3 letters: agings, anions, goings, inions, nasion, noggin, nosing, saning.
	-4 letters: aging, agios, agons, anion, gains, gangs, gigas, going, gongs, gonia, inion, noggs, nonas.
	-5 letters: agin, agio, agog, agon, ains, anis, anon, gags, gain, gang, giga, gigs, gins, goas, gong, inia, inns, ions, nags, nans, naoi, naos, nisi, nogg, nogs, nona, sago, sain, sang, sign, sing, snag, snog, song.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-i-n-n-o-s"
	+1 letter: diagnosing, organising.
	+2 letters: garrisoning, sloganizing.
	+3 letters: angiogenesis, gormandising.
	+4 letters: disorganizing, isoagglutinin, misdiagnosing.
	+5 letters: agglutinations, antiaggression, ingurgitations, isoagglutinins, postganglionic.
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