Antonyms for agonizingly


Grammar : Adv
Spell : ag-uh-nahy-zing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæg əˌnaɪ zɪŋ


Definition of agonizingly

  • As in uncomfortably : adv painfully
  • As in hard : adv with difficulty
Example sentences :
  • The details were overpowering, but the total picture was agonizingly clear.
  • Extract from : « The Next Logical Step » by Benjamin William Bova
  • A muffled sound, faint, but agonizingly definite—a woman's sobs!
  • Extract from : « The Secret Witness » by George Gibbs
  • An agonizingly long time later the faint and disregarded sound of the plane swept back across the heavens.
  • Extract from : « Operation Terror » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • A glance told him it was empty; but he felt with his hands in all the dim corners, agonizingly whispering her name.
  • Extract from : « Two on the Trail » by Hulbert Footner
  • It was as if someone had prodded him in an agonizingly sore place and he reacted instinctively.
  • Extract from : « The Black Tide » by Arthur G. Stangland
  • And in two minutes he was flown, agonizingly anxious, knowing that something was wrong.
  • Extract from : « Prudence of the Parsonage » by Ethel Hueston
  • No street is avoided in their daily walks, which agonizingly suggests a floating form once watched and waited for there.
  • Extract from : « Folly as It Flies » by Fanny Fern
  • Not able even to stand alone, awkwardly, agonizingly unable to mount his restive horse, his life was yet so strong within him!
  • Extract from : « Jackanapes » by Juliana Horatio Ewing
  • Were the features against which that frail bit of cambric was agonizingly pressed of a pleasing contour?
  • Extract from : « Seven Keys to Baldpate » by Earl Derr Biggers
  • On the reviewing stand the dignified hands went up, agonizingly slow, to a final salute and they stayed there.
  • Extract from : « Martian V.F.W. » by G.L. Vandenburg

Synonyms for agonizingly

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