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# excruciatingly

adverb

«excruciatingly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Extremely painfully. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excruciatingly/#m1)
2. (informal) Extremely, in a way that is hard to bear, as in «excruciatingly slow» or «excruciatingly embarrassing». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excruciatingly/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excruciatingly/#x1)
- The queue moved excruciatingly slowly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excruciatingly/#x2)
- The film was excruciatingly boring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excruciatingly/#x3)
- It was excruciatingly embarrassing when my phone rang in assembly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excruciatingly/#x4)
- The comedian was excruciatingly funny. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excruciatingly/#x5)
- The last minutes before the bell went excruciatingly slowly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excruciatingly/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «excruciatingly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excruciatingly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«excruciatingly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/excruciatingly.html) on Mova free.