Word Meanings - AGONIZINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

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• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• EXTREME
  Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. Extreme and mean ratio , the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater
• ANGUISH
  Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31. Note: Rarely used in the
• DESPERATELY
  In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. She fell desperately in love with him. Addison.
• EXTREMELY
  In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.
• DESPERATENESS
  Desperation; virulence.
• DESPERATE
  1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. I am desperate of obtaining her. Shak. 2. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune. 3.
• LANGUISH
  languere; cf. Gr. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and 1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases.
• LANGUISHNESS
  Languishment.
• LANGUISHMENT
  1. The state of languishing. " Lingering languishment." Shak. 2. Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.
• LANGUISHINGLY
  In a languishing manner.
• LANGUISHING
  1. Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength. 2. Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.
• LANGUISHER
  One who languishes.