tormentous

Adjective

 * 1)  Involving or causing torment; having the nature of torture.
 * 2) * 1756, Philip Francis (translator), Horace (author), "Ode 35: To Fortune" in A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace, p. 129 (Google preview):
 * Before thee stalks inexorable Fate,
 * And grasps impailing nails and wedges dread,
 * The hook tormentous and the melted lead.
 * 1) * 1960 May, "Loneliest Boy on Capitol Hill", Ebony, vol. 15, no. 7, p. 58 (Google preview):
 * Few adults could have survived the tormentous, agonizing heartbreak Jimmy endured.
 * Few adults could have survived the tormentous, agonizing heartbreak Jimmy endured.