TORMENTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tormented mean? 

• TORMENTED (adjective)
  The adjective TORMENTED has 2 senses:

1. experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

2. tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears

  Familiarity information: TORMENTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORMENTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

Synonyms:

anguished; tormented; tortured

Context example:

a tortured witness to another's humiliation

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears

Synonyms:

hag-ridden; hagridden; tormented

Context example:

hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

 Context examples 

She liked me, but she laughed at me, and tormented me; and when I went to meet her, stole home another way, and was laughing at the door when I came back, disappointed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Love tormented him and overrode his will, so that, despite all determination, he found himself at the little ink-stained table.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This was the forest near Ingolstadt; and here I lay by the side of a brook resting from my fatigue, until I felt tormented by hunger and thirst.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I asked of God, at once in anguish and humility, if I had not been long enough desolate, afflicted, tormented; and might not soon taste bliss and peace once more.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To such an extent was he tormented, that he hated blindly and without the faintest spark of reason.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on her first arrival, was again the scene of agitated spirits and unquiet slumbers.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

For many a year, however—ever since I have been in your service, Sir Charles—my conscience tormented me, and I swore that if ever I should find my old master, I should reveal everything to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whatever they may have been, however, she may now, and hereafter doubtless WILL turn with gratitude towards her own condition, when she compares it with that of my poor Eliza, when she considers the wretched and hopeless situation of this poor girl, and pictures her to herself, with an affection for him so strong, still as strong as her own, and with a mind tormented by self-reproach, which must attend her through life.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He meant to please, and he tormented me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It tormented his dreams at night.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)