Tormentous vs Tormenting - What's the difference?

Tormentous is a synonym of tormenting.

As adjectives the difference between tormentous and tormenting

is that tormentous is (rare|dated) involving or causing torment; having the nature of tortureoxford english dictionary , 3rd ed, 2005 while tormenting is involving or causing torment.

As a verb tormenting is

As a noun tormenting is

the act by which somebody is tormented.

tormentous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(rare, dated) Involving or causing torment; having the nature of torture.Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., 2005.

* 1756 , (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.

* 1870 , The Annual Register, Volume 111 , p. 264 (Google preview):

[I]ts greed gave us years tormentous and horrible, like those of Ferdinand VII.

* 1960 May, "The Loneliest Boy on Capital Hill", Ebony , vol. 15, no. 7, p. 58 (Google preview):

Few adults could have survived the tormentous , agonizing heartbreak Jimmy endured.

* 2006 , Jubil Olebode Aka, Blacks Greatest Homeland: Nigeria Is Born Again , ISBN 9780595388974, p. 12 (Google preview):

In Nigeria in particular and Africa generally, there is no winter, no heat-wave, no iceberg, no volcanoes, no hail storms, no devastating wild fires, no tormentous tornadoes or thunderstorms, no deadly floods.

Synonyms

* tormenting, torturous

References

tormenting

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(more)

Involving or causing torment.

Synonyms

* tormentous

Noun

(en noun)

The act by which somebody is tormented.

* 1832 , Mary Brunton, Self Control (page 335)

If Laura really entertained the hope she mentioned, she was miserably disappointed; for Lady Pelham remitted not a jot of her tormentings .