excruciatingly

«excruciatingly» in Mova's school dictionary: Extremely painfully — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

1) Extremely painfully. tree →

2) (informal) Extremely, in a way that is hard to bear, as in «excruciatingly slow» or «excruciatingly embarrassing». tree →

sense in the lessons

Usually it strengthens another adjective: «excruciatingly painful», «excruciatingly boring», «excruciatingly funny» (so funny it hurts). In stories it tells the reader that something was almost unbearable.

examples

• The cut was excruciatingly painful. tree →
• The queue moved excruciatingly slowly. tree →
• The film was excruciatingly boring. tree →
• It was excruciatingly embarrassing when my phone rang in assembly. tree →
• The comedian was excruciatingly funny. tree →
• The last minutes before the bell went excruciatingly slowly. tree →

note

Adverb from «excruciating». It almost always comes before another adjective or adverb as a strong intensifier. Pronounced ex-KROO-shee-ay-ting-lee.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «excruciatingly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.